The Ultimate Mac Buyer’s Guide, Part 5: CPU Cores Speed Up Workflow — Sometimes

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Fifth of a series of OWC articles by Lloyd.

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The Ultimate Mac Buyer’s Guide, Part 5: How Cores Speed Up Workflow — Sometimes

2024-04-02

Here, I discuss the general principles governing how many CPU cores make sense for your tasks. A subsequent article will show how to actually check out your own specific workflow and applications for CPU core usage and scalability.

CPU core usage is more complex on Apple Silicon (M-Series) processors due to having both “performance” and “efficiency” cores. For our purposes here, I ignore that difference— in practice it makes little difference in the evaluation for workflow needs, and even less so on the M3 series chips, whose efficiency cores are faster than ever before.

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The Ultimate Mac Buyer’s Guide, Part 5: CPU Cores Speed Up Workflow — Sometimes