Are these laptops trends in 2018 really what you expect ?

[dalekphalm]

On 1/23/2018 at 8:21 AM, themctipers said:

i7 8550u is trash

For a 15W CPU? Hell no it's not.

 

4c 8t

2 GHz Base

4 GHz Boost

 

That's damn solid for a non-gaming Laptop. I have the i5-8250u in my Spectre x360, and that's sufficient for how I use it (Same specs, but slightly lower base and boost clocks).

 

If I could have justified the price difference, I would have jumped up to the i7 u variant (Whether it was the 8550u or the 8650u - either would have been a nice upgrade).

[themctipers]

Just now, dalekphalm said:

For a 15W CPU? Hell no it's not.

 

4c 8t

2 GHz Base

4 GHz Boost

 

That's damn solid for a non-gaming Laptop. I have the i5-8250u in my Spectre x360, and that's sufficient for how I use it (Same specs, but slightly lower base and boost clocks).

 

If I could have justified the price difference, I would have jumped up to the i7 u variant (Whether it was the 8550u or the 8650u - either would have been a nice upgrade).

it stayed at 1.9GHz turbo only if it was single or multi threaded,and only 90% CPU usage as '100%' CPU usage

fucking power saving on that laptop, terrible. 

[dalekphalm]

3 minutes ago, themctipers said:

it stayed at 1.9GHz turbo only if it was single or multi threaded,and only 90% CPU usage as '100%' CPU usage

fucking power saving on that laptop, terrible. 

I'd suggest that's a design/thermal flaw/limitation in the specific laptop, not a problem with the CPU itself.

[themctipers]

3 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

I'd suggest that's a design/thermal flaw/limitation in the specific laptop, not a problem with the CPU itself.

it was an acer

it only went to 60c under load, it had a nice 'beefy' heatsink and cooler, most of the back and under side was exhaust.. or well, you could see the heatsink.

 

there were many other problems with the laptop anyways, but that was one of them.