I want to get a new computer because I’m an educator and I’d like to start designing a website, making video content, writing long documents, photoshop, and other content creation.
I’m looking at a MacBook but the research on how all of the cpus work with cores work with ghz speed work with different memory sizes is making my head spin.
Please, ELI5, show me how all of these things work together as if they were one functioning system. All I can find are articles that explain each separately, but not how each impacts the other. Thank you!
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The CPU is the brain of the computer and the RAM is the lungs. On a very general level, more RAM will allow you to do more things at once (open a ton of tabs, have Photoshop and After Effects and League of Legends open at the same time), while the CPU will allow a given tasks to be processed faster – something you’d notice if you were trying to render a video or perform a similar “heavy” process. “iX” is the Intel processor model name (higher is better) and GHz is the speed of each processor core. More cores and faster are better, but you can compare which processor will be faster on the whole by just comparing prices. A very loose way to think about it is GHz speed x # of processor cores. Even base Macbook Pro models are pretty decent these days, so I’d recommend something mid-tier for the processor and ideally 16GB of RAM for stuff like programming or fucking around with Photoshop. If you have Chrome open with 25 tabs + Photoshop, you want enough RAM to breathe comfortably. If you’re planning on PC gaming or more intense video creation, you need to look at graphics cards as well, which are kind of like CPUs that specialize in parallel operations – i.e. stuff like rendering images in real time.
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