Should I return the 10-core?

[ADGrant]

I know it's everyone's personal choice how to live and how to spend their money. However, I have always followed my late fathers advice - if you can't pay cash (with the exception of buying your home) then you can't afford it. For most one of the lower spec models is plenty good enough.

Your fathers advice was in general sound (though harder to apply to a car or house perhaps), however the $400 10 core upgrade does not automatically transform the iMac from affordable to not affordable.

Also, interest free loans call in to question the wisdom of paying cash. You could take that cash and earn some interest in a savings account (not much admittedly).

 

[Lankyman]

Your fathers advice was in general sound (though harder to apply to a car or house perhaps), however the $400 10 core upgrade does not automatically transform the iMac from affordable to not affordable.

Also, interest free loans call in to question the wisdom of paying cash. You could take that cash and earn some interest in a savings account (not much admittedly).

Don't start me off on interest rates. We're not far off negative interest rates which means banks will charge you for the privelage of looking after your money. Back to stuffing it in the mattress if that happens.

 

[Nicole1980]

No, I am not blind. I choose to rely on real benchmarks. Have you checked on the source of that one?

I choose something like this.

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Again, no one is arguing that geekbench scores are higher in the 10 core. The issue is, geekbench shows you the full utilization of all those cores, but down in the real world, as the core count goes up, the efficiency with which most programs fully utilize those cores goes down.
So, while going from 4 to 6 cores may give you a 50% bump in performance, a lot of programs going from 4 to 10 cares rarely gives you anything close to the 150% jump that would be implied by geekbench.
Geekbench is one of the few programs that actually fully USES all 10 cores, thus using geekbench scores to make a point about real world speed is inherently flawed.

Ironically in that very video, most tests show a very minor increase in real world speed with he 10-cores! The guy even says he was ‘disappointed’ by the minor advantage of he 10-core. So in fact the very video you site to make your point actually DISPROVES your point.

pretty funny actually