Too lazy to read. Are they manufacturing in Taiwan now?

The CPU is so beyond minimum requirements… which OS version you use should not affect performance that a human can notice at all.

Pretty much the answer is go with whatever is cheaper, unless you actually have a real use-case for more CPU power, then get the 13700k.

I believe the 13700K were better than the previous generation’s 12900K…this isn’t the case with the 14th gen. 14600k == 13600k, with an incredibly small increase in the frequency of the turbo boost. Hardware wise, it’s the same. It’s basically a slightly overclocked 13600k, but with no real world, or benchmark performance difference.

However, there may be one upside in that Intel may only provide updates & bug fixes to the 14th gen CPUs and not the previous generations. I don’t think there’s any real limitation for them not to update the 13th gen except for inticing people to buy the 14th gen since the chips are for all intents & purposes, identical.

Customer satisfication matters… a lot.

I had such a terrible experience with the first few generation of Android phones, such as the phone app, the thing the device was called, took 10 seconds to open! And this was just a tad below a flagship phone!

Android have gotten better but once I switched, I switched. Android would really have to have a true game changer to have me change. And it’s not any little gimmicky toys or folding screens, but something that rivals the invention of the internet, some groundbreaking AI or something that isn’t on iPhones.