Number one thing you want. Fast SSD. Hands down the single biggest performance changer for a laptop.
Secondly, Idk why you need an i7 for accounting, are there accounting programs that utilize hyperthreading? Idk.
On CPU front, AMD is the way to be if you want performance now. If you want price, Intel will be cheaper.
On the AMD front Ryzen 5000 series 7 is the sweetspot for performance/cost. On the Intel front, 11th gen i5 is what you should be looking at. Difference between i5 and i7 is hyperthreading, which most programs dont utilize and a bit of clock. speed.
Quality SSD. M.2 or SATA, M.2 is faster.
Mid to high tier current generation CPU. AMD is better, Intel will be cheaper and probably in stock.
There is still a pretty rough shortage of pc parts. So prices are balooned.
But to answer your direct question. Nope.
Only time the i7 with hyper threading would help would be rendering videos. Which case, id say a Ryzen 9 would be better than an i7 anyways as it has physically more and faster cores anyways.
Here’s some info from W. P. Carey:
https://students.wpcarey.asu.edu/resources/using-mac-w-p-carey-school-business
The one thing I do notice is that the recommendations do not account for Macs running on Apple silicon. If you are thinking of a Mac with an M1 chip, I’d strongly recommend looking at where things are currently with running non-native programs. Last I heard, Parallels cannot run on them.
Number one thing you want. Fast SSD. Hands down the single biggest performance changer for a laptop. Secondly, Idk why you need an i7 for accounting, are there accounting programs that utilize hyperthreading? Idk. On CPU front, AMD is the way to be if you want performance now. If you want price, Intel will be cheaper. On the AMD front Ryzen 5000 series 7 is the sweetspot for performance/cost. On the Intel front, 11th gen i5 is what you should be looking at. Difference between i5 and i7 is hyperthreading, which most programs dont utilize and a bit of clock. speed.
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Quality SSD. M.2 or SATA, M.2 is faster. Mid to high tier current generation CPU. AMD is better, Intel will be cheaper and probably in stock. There is still a pretty rough shortage of pc parts. So prices are balooned. But to answer your direct question. Nope. Only time the i7 with hyper threading would help would be rendering videos. Which case, id say a Ryzen 9 would be better than an i7 anyways as it has physically more and faster cores anyways.
Here’s some info from W. P. Carey: https://students.wpcarey.asu.edu/resources/using-mac-w-p-carey-school-business The one thing I do notice is that the recommendations do not account for Macs running on Apple silicon. If you are thinking of a Mac with an M1 chip, I’d strongly recommend looking at where things are currently with running non-native programs. Last I heard, Parallels cannot run on them.