Comment Re:Time to stop considering individual components. (Score 1) 85
I said sometimes and also referenced everyday tasks. Are you transcoding video on a daily basis?
If you're a person who's transcoding video, then sure, one core i7 with less cores but higher frequency will do the job better than another core i7 with more cores and lower frequency.
But if you're looking for a machine to do office suite docs, browse the web, email, etc. then comparing machines based on does this machine have a Core M vs Core M becomes irrelevant. You have to think about things like build quality and overall design.
For a lot of things a computer gets used for these days by common users, looking at spec sheets isn't enough. It's been that way for a long time and now we've reached an interesting place where this point is coming down to how the boards and chips are layed out.