It's an i7-9750H... it should handle Evernote just fine. I can run multiple virtual systems in VMware Workstation without a problem. I opened Evernote on the machine twenty minutes ago, so it should be well finished with syncing and any processing and it's currently using 4.7-5% CPU and constant disk usage (and over a GB of RAM, too). It would be nice had they included the activity log in this version like the old one.
I'm not going to reinstall. I'll just use the web app until I can figure out a migration plan to something else. I've used Evernote since before the elephant... when it was a never-ending roll of notes that came with a Wacom tablet in like 2004 or 2005. Been a premium paid user since 2008. And you can all say what you want, but this is not like the "good old days" anymore. This is just one of many issues - collapsing notebook stacks don't work correctly when moving a note in iOS, sending emails to my Evernote address sometimes don't get put in the inbox for hours and sometimes days, the cost, and hey a note in my inbox just disappeared - in the reading pane and says Note unavailable.
For what it's worth, my desktop chews CPU and disk just like the laptop does. Not as big of an issue since it doesn't run on battery. So if something is corrupt, it's my account, not the install. And with their support these days I'll NEVER get that resolved.
So I'm going to unfollow this thread and move on and you can all say what you will about the Evernote non-believer. I'm going to bail like so many others have.