For the intended use of this processor, thin and light laptops, a 2c/4t processor is just fine. This is a laptop that will see light use. Web browsing and Microsoft Office will be the hardest load these things will see.
I have 6/12 X5650 last 4 years, not complaining just wondering intel still pulling this dual core crap
Yeah, and I've got a 2c/4t i3-3217U laptop that I bought 4 years ago that I still use, and up until last month was my daily driver laptop.
The fact is, for low power(15w power envelope) Windows laptop applications like where these processors will be used, 2c/4t is actually better than 4c/4t. Because at that point, you have to limit the 4c/4t processor to such a low clock speed, that it's single threaded performance really suffers. However, a 2c/4t can be clocked higher. And most tasks that will run on these machines perform much better with a higher single threaded performance. So they run much better with a high clocked dual-core than with a low clocked quad-core.
And, I know, you can say the i5-8250U is 4c/4t, has the same clock speeds, and is 15w too. And you'd be right. However, I've used that processor and in practical use, is only briefly ever hits the maximum turbo frequency of 3.4GHz. In reality, to stay under the 15w power limit, it runs at sub-3GHz after 5ish seconds of load on a single core. I'm willing to bet that the i3-8130u will stay at 3.4GHz in situations where the i5-8250U wouldn't.
