Apple to switch Mac lineup to its own chips

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@Bozobub

Once again, however, for most common computing – that isn’t one of the above tasks, of course – single-core speed is significantly more important than number of cores.

Not to mention that even with a blazing fast CPU and lots of cores, you’re still stuck with comparatively slow I/O from disk, network, and even RAM. You can improve on many of these things the more money you’re willing to spend – but only so much.