Topic by clavierschule@gmail.com

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Topic: Any Performance issues w/ 8th gen i5/i7 mobile Intel (8265U etc) CPUs?

My "Workstation" laptop stopped working and I'm trying to find an affordable replacement.  I am stretched financially and looking at refurbished units

I am coming across a number of units that are the Kaby Lake mobile processor, which use Intel Core i5-8265U or Core i7-8565U processors. General reviews are good, but wondering with respect to the sustained processing power required by Organteq.

the base speeds are 1.7ghz and 1.9, respectively, and can be "turbo" boosted 4x to over the 3gHz range. 

But over time the Turbo boost resets and lowers, and wondering if that has any performance implications using Organteq.

Any insights would be very helpful. 

The pandemic sort of wiped me out, and am "rebuilding" my world, and being able to practice, but also to be able to do concerts on virtual instruments are important aspects of what I am wanting to get back to.

That's why the Laptop solution is important to me.

Many thanks.
Scott

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Re: Any Performance issues w/ 8th gen i5/i7 mobile Intel (8265U etc) CPUs?

clavierschule@gmail.com wrote:

My "Workstation" laptop stopped working and I'm trying to find an affordable replacement.  I am stretched financially and looking at refurbished units

I am coming across a number of units that are the Kaby Lake mobile processor, which use Intel Core i5-8265U or Core i7-8565U processors. General reviews are good, but wondering with respect to the sustained processing power required by Organteq.

the base speeds are 1.7ghz and 1.9, respectively, and can be "turbo" boosted 4x to over the 3gHz range. 

But over time the Turbo boost resets and lowers, and wondering if that has any performance implications using Organteq.

Any insights would be very helpful. 

The pandemic sort of wiped me out, and am "rebuilding" my world, and being able to practice, but also to be able to do concerts on virtual instruments are important aspects of what I am wanting to get back to.

That's why the Laptop solution is important to me.

Many thanks.
Scott

My heart goes out to you and I've been there. I was made redundant as one of the circuit organists for our churches due to the fact of COVID19 and my health issues, so for 3 years plus, I've either been working on developer projects or building my own digital 4  manual console which over 3 years has been a nightmare but now it's nearing completion. I was recently diagnosed with a heart condition  as well. Back in december, due to snow and a cowboy who damaged our roof, my iMac Pro along with a few controllers and other equipment was damaged by a  ceiling cave-in, so lost my main development machine, now just running my 2020 macbook pro and I love it, I don't feel tied to a desk anymore and this works great with the organ  build as I have a lot of electronics work still to do. so I understand the income issue only too well.

the specs you give seem fine. I always get a bit jittery over turboboost modes as they're ok for ramping up on certain process loads, but then they back off and it is a headache. I'd say though that the spec would be ok. I'd persuade you to consider a mac though in all honesty because the OS is not as intensive as windows and you can get better audio performance out of a mac. 2014 / 2017 mac mini would work fine for you or a 2015 I7 macbook pro if you can find one in a good condition for the price.

lew

Blind Music Producer, Composer, pianist and Church Organist. Accessibility development specialist for MacOS. Developing a solution for blind organists to have an accessible digital organ solution.