Hello
@PeterAF,
If you are within your rights to return/exchange the i5-10400 for an i9-10900 then of course that would give you a significant boost in multi-threaded applications. To determine whether your Photoshop and Visual Studio jobs make use of multiple cores, simply run Activity Monitor and bring up the
CPU Usage window from the
Windows menu.
If you upgrade to the i9-10900 then no change of any kind is needed. Just plug and play.
Note also that 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs will be on the market later this month, but they top out at 8 cores, 16 threads. If you choose an 11th Gen CPU, we may need to apply a Fake CPU ID to
config.plist.