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📣 pedrogpimenta

Are Ryzen processors good for development?


Coming from years of mac-only computing, I'm a bit lost as to what I should be looking for in a laptopt PC.

I see several laptops that use AMD Ryzen, they look like a cheaper option, but I don't know if it has any impact on software compatibility, specially on the development side, precisely front-end technologies like Node or PHP.

If you have any recommendation, it would help :)

  👤 shams93 Accepted Answer ✓
If you're going for a low cost development laptop most likely the pinebook pro is a better option than a cheap ryzen system. I have a cheap ryzen system, a dell inspirion its locked into windows 10 and doesn't handle virtualization but I use this thing for music production rather than development. It does a better job at media production than a pinebook pro could but actually the pinebook pro would be a better system for doing development with node and php than windows 10.
👤 wmf
Yes, Ryzen 4xxx are the fastest for development and they are very compatible.