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Should you buy a laptop with 8th-gen or 9th-gen Core CPU? It's all about cores and clocks

Should you buy a laptop with 8th-gen or 9th-gen Core CPU? It’s all about cores and clocks

Posted on May 2, 2019 By Jarvis

Other than Core i9, the rest of the 9th-gen lineup offers just incremental improvements.

Now that Intel’s latest 9th-gen Core mobile chips are on their way, it’s time to figure out whether it’ll be worth it to pay top dollar for the new chip; buy or keep a laptop with an 8th-gen CPU (plenty of current models remain available), or upgrade from your 6th-gen or 7th-gen model.

The issues differ from generation to generation. In many cases, we’ve said you can wait a few years before upgrading. The 8th-generation jump was an exception: It represented one of the biggest laptop CPU improvements in a long time, worthy of upgrading even from a 7th-gen chip.
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