On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 09:02 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On a 2.4 GHz i7-4700MQ laptop with 16 GB of RAM (sorry Stan!) The question is, if more cores and more RAM really make a difference for averaged desktop usage. AFAIK more cores and RAM should be important for video production, but for averaged desktop usage there perhaps really is no advantage.