Time for a workstation? Is my Laptop aging? How can I tell?

[SlaveCam]

42 minutes ago, jeff said:

I honestly don't know. But if you're on the fence about AMD, you might want to wait until their "ThreadRipper" cpu's launch in August. They will be should be a lot better for multi threading applications.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3197184/components-processors/amd-ryzen-threadripper-prices-specs-release-date-and-more.html

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/252362-amd-announces-threadripper-launch-window-speeds-prices-details-upcoming-ryzen-3

If I didn't just get a new computer a year ago for Mastercam, I'd definitely buy an AMD ThreadRipper build.

Unfortunately our computer is going to fail any moment now. I found some test articles (Autocad and Solidworks) stating that the 7700k would be a better choice.

[medaq]

I have not had the time to read everything that was written. But I am on a laptop with m4000 Card in it. Windows 10 has been updating my video drivers with out me knowing. This was causing a ton of crashes. The stupidest things would cause it to crash, like resizing a window. Ever since I got the laptop down graded to a 2016 driver. And then stopped windows 10 from auto updating my drivers. My system has been solid as all hell. And this with 150+ meg files. 

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

If you're using a lot of "legacy" ops you want single core performance over core count.