No More Intel T Series Processor

My fascination around low powered CPU is not something new. Ever since I started realizing that even an old Nokia phone from a decade back has a low powered processor inside, I always wanted to use one of those as my primary CPU of my computer. However, not so surprisingly that didn't become reality for me, not yet.

We all know those teeny-tiny processors may run smaller Symbian OS or Palm OS but they definitely can not run OS like Windows due to wide range of reasons or limitations. Much later, PDA was introduced to the consumer market and then smartphones became widely available. They all used those tiny processor but they became much more powerful. What is common among all these devices is that they all use much smaller CPU than any modern x86 microprocessor.

Today I will focus on Intel's very own T Series CPUs that we can see on many small and low powered desktop computers and share my experiences with them. One of many reasons why I always wanted to stick to the "T" series processors over regular ones is because of it's lower TDP and they tend to run much cooler. Modern x86 desktop CPUs are quite powerful. But that power comes at a cost of higher electricity usage and they tend to generate much more heat. Almost all of them has more than one core and they are very good at multi-tasking operations.

For average users who use their computer mostly for web browsing, watching online videos and performing daily official tasks, those "T" series CPUs tend to serve their purpose. I always thought, I am one of those average users and I tried with my heart and soul to continue to use those CPUs but I had to let it go simply because it could not serve my purpose well enough.

I use wide range software on my computer and some of them are quite power hungry and requires CPU with higher base clock speed and other resources. Most modern "T" series CPU doesn't have enough base clock speed to run those applications. Enabling Intel's turbo-boost technology may address some of my requirement but that still isn't good enough.

What I came to realize is that an average and fairly up-to-date Intel Core i7 or i9 processor seems works best for me. Even though I always turn off the turbo-boost feature of their CPU. Any 6-8 core based CPU works just fine for me when I am not doing any video editing or capturing game play.

I work from home and when I start working for my office, I need multiple web browser and at least ten or fifteen tab opened on each browser. I would also have an script editor and an instance of Apache server running for web development purpose. This seems to be a bit too much for even fairly new Intel Core i9-1200T processor.