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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Dear PD-brain,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Wondering if I can ask your collective advice on something:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">My old laptop finally died after 9 joyful years, and it's time to get a new one. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">There are several options within my budget, and they differ in terms of the multicore processors (i5 vs. i7).</p>
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there are any preferences or considerations regarding multiple cores? And in general, what should be the priorities?</span>
<div>I will be working on Windows, and I typically use quite a lot of FFT, even several processes in parallel, for various spectral/cepstral stuff in my work. My main patches use assorted GUIs for controlling all this traffic. Also: ambisonics (tho they're fairly
cheap in cpu, no?)</div>
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<div>Any thoughts? I am admittedly somewhat out of touch with the current state of technology... </div>
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<div>Thanks in advance everyone,</div>
<div>Zax</div>
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