General Dev>In The News

You should buy a faster CPU

CommunityNews

CommunityNews

You should buy a faster CPU

In the past few years, CPUs have gotten really fast. Shockingly fast! Yet most people are stuck on previous generation mobile chips (whether by choice, or by their companies choice), at a huge detriment to their productivity.
Meanwhile, AI coding subscriptions like Cursor are all the rage these days. I’ll skip the debate on exactly how useful these tools are, and focus on the pricing. Cursor is $480/year for the team plan (the cheapest corporate plan), and other providers are around the same, setting a clear price point: engineering productivity is worth at least $500/year.

Read in full here:

8 comments
#cpu
13 1070 8

Most Liked

chris.johan

chris.johan

I was thinking of getting one of those BeeLink mini-PC (https://www.bee-link.com/). Has anyone tried those?

2
Post #2
chris.johan

chris.johan

Thanks!

2
Post #5
jmagnani

jmagnani

Thank you for the recommendation.

2
Post #6

Where Next?

View thread on forum
cpu
Home General Dev>In The News
#cpu
13 1070 8
Last post

Popular General Dev topics Top

First poster: AstonJ
General Dev>In The News

Wearable Microphone Jamming
We engineered a wearable microphone jammer that is capable of disabling microphones in its user’s surroundings, including hidden micropho...
sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu
/security
7 1834 3
New
First poster: dyowee
General Dev>In The News

There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code
Everyone seems to be striving for ‘clean’ code at the moment. You can’t read a blog post without the author telling you how clean their a...
steveonstuff.com
#code
31 1701 9
New
First poster: bot
General Dev>In The News

Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero
Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocol...
blog.flipperzero.one
#guide
0 1468 0
New
First poster: bot
General Dev>In The News

Developing Godot Projects with Neovim
Developing Godot Projects with Neovim. When I started using Godot Engine, what surprised me the most is the built-in Language Server Pro...
devpoga.org
/neovim
0 1983 0
New
First poster: bot
General Dev>In The News

Apache Apisix vs. Kong: Open-Source API Gateway
API Gateway Trends behind Features: Apache APISIX 3.0 vs. Kong 3.0 - API7.ai. By comparing the open-source API Gateway Apache APISIX and...
api7.ai
#api
0 3596 0
New
CommunityNews
General Dev>In The News

Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails | The GitHub Blog. Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the app...
github.blog
/ruby/rails#github
1 1159 1
New
CommunityNews
General Dev>In The News

Review of Linux on Minisforum V3 AMD Ryzen Tablet
A Brief Review of the Minisforum V3 AMD Tablet. Update: I have created an awesome-minisforum-v3 GitHub repository to list information fo...
mudkip.me
#linux#review#amd
0 4635 0
New
CommunityNews
General Dev>In The News

I'm a neuroscientist. Here's the surprising truth about TikTok 'brain rot'
What did the study find? They scanned the brains of more than a hundred undergrad students and had them complete a questionnaire about th...
sciencefocus.com
#tiktok
1 463 0
New
First poster: alvinkatojr
General Dev>In The News

The A.I. Monarchy
About accelerationism, NRx, and the intersection of technology, religion, and philosophy: an analysis of the essential ideas in the new A...
substack.com
2 871 1
New
First poster: Unelix
General Dev>In The News

Workout-cool: 🏋 Modern open-source fitness coaching platform
:person_lifting_weights: Modern open-source fitness coaching platform. Create workout plans, track progress, and access a comprehensive e...
github.com
#fitness#progress#github#database#workout
0 1721 2
New

Other popular topics Top

PragmaticBookshelf
Backend>Learning Resources

Programming Machine Learning
Machine learning can be intimidating, with its reliance on math and algorithms that most programmers don't encounter in their regular wor...
pragprog.com
#pragprog#ai/python#published-book/book-programming-machine-learning#math#algorithms
6 5350 3
New
PragmaticBookshelf
General Dev>Learning Resources

Forge Your Future with Open Source
Free and open source software is the default choice for the technologies that run our world, and it’s built and maintained by people like...
pragprog.com
#pragprog#published-book/book-forge-your-future-with-open-source
3 5654 0
New
AstonJ
General Dev>Hardware

Poll: Which keyboard layout do you use?
poll poll Be sure to check out @Dusty’s article posted here: An Introduction to Alternative Keyboard Layouts It’s one of the best write-...
colemakmods.github.io
#polls/keyboards
10 6048 11
New
foxtrottwist
General Dev>Dev Chat

Warp—The blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal
A few weeks ago I started using Warp a terminal written in rust. Though in it’s current state of development there are a few caveats (tab...
/rust#terminal
52 6785 22
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Community>In The Spotlight

Spotlight: Rebecca Skinner (Author) Interview and AMA!
Author Spotlight Rebecca Skinner @RebeccaSkinner Welcome to our latest author spotlight, where we sit down with Rebecca Skinner, auth...
#author-spotlight/haskell/book-effective-haskell
106 11719 28
New
First poster: CommunityNews
AI>In The News

How to fix the eyes in AI-generated images
aidemos.info
0 4508 0
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Backend>Learning Resources

Programming Ruby 3.2 (5th Edition)
Programming Ruby is the most complete book on Ruby, covering both the language itself and the standard library as well as commonly used t...
twitter.com
#pragprog/ruby/rails#published-book/book-programming-ruby-3-2-5th-edition
28 8550 13
New
First poster: bot
General Dev>In The News

Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std
zig/http.zig at 7cf2cbb33ef34c1d211135f56d30fe23b6cacd42 · ziglang/zig. General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaini...
github.com
/zig#http
0 5624 0
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Community>In The Spotlight

Spotlight: Bruce Tate (Author) Interview and AMA!
Author Spotlight: Bruce Tate @redrapids Programming languages always emerge out of need, and if that’s not always true, they’re defin...
/elixir/ruby/phoenix/book-seven-more-languages-in-seven-weeks/book-seven-languages-in-seven-weeks#liveview/book-programming-phoenix-liveview
54 5678 23
New
AstonJ
AI>In The News

DeepSeek (671B) running on a cluster of 8 Mac Mini Pros with 64GB RAM each
This is cool! DEEPSEEK-V3 ON M4 MAC: BLAZING FAST INFERENCE ON APPLE SILICON We just witnessed something incredible: the largest open-s...
#ai#macs/deepseek
0 6695 1
New
Back to top

Sponsor Spotlight

EEF

Supporting innovation across the BEAM ecosystem.

General Dev>In The News

General Dev In The News ❯

Latest on Devtalk

Devtalk ❯

We ❤️ helpful members!

We reward our most helpful members via our MOTM scheme - by giving away a whopping 25 books per year!

Member of the Month

Devtalk Sponsors

Pragmatic Bookshelf

Practical resources that improve the lives of professional developers.

Erlang Solutions

We build trusted fault-tolerant systems that scale to billions of users.

Honeybadger

Real-time error tracking, performance insights, and observability for devs.

EEF

Supporting innovation across the BEAM ecosystem.

coders51

We build reliable cloud platforms for business-critical systems.

Manning Publications

Develop your skills with books, videos, and courses.

AppSignal

Catch errors, track performance, monitor hosts and more.

WyeWorks

Enabling companies to succeed by building software people love.

Pragmatic Studio

Courses that move you from confusion to "Aha, now I get it!"

Linux New Media

Publishing Linux Magazine, ADMIN, and MakerSpace for 25+ years.

View all our sponsors ❯

Categories:

Sub Categories:

Popular Portals

Devtalk Sponsors

Pragmatic Bookshelf

Practical resources that improve the lives of professional developers.

Erlang Solutions

We build trusted fault-tolerant systems that scale to billions of users.

Honeybadger

Real-time error tracking, performance insights, and observability for devs.

EEF

Supporting innovation across the BEAM ecosystem.

coders51

We build reliable cloud platforms for business-critical systems.

Manning Publications

Develop your skills with books, videos, and courses.

AppSignal

Catch errors, track performance, monitor hosts and more.

WyeWorks

Enabling companies to succeed by building software people love.

Pragmatic Studio

Courses that move you from confusion to "Aha, now I get it!"

Linux New Media

Publishing Linux Magazine, ADMIN, and MakerSpace for 25+ years.

View all our sponsors ❯

We're in Beta

About us Mission Statement See our Roadmap