Real World Computer Question.... Proc speed

[rock-reed]

Real World Computer Question.... Proc speed
Hello GFY,

I currently have a p4 2.8gig laptop...


How much faster... in Reality...

Would a Duo Core 2.0gig be?


I know you guys will all have great opinions and advice for me...

My main use for my laptop is for Video editing, music recording and editing, and some games.

Thanks,
and Good Day Mates!

[rock-reed]

Comon,
There has to be some people out here on GFY using core duo's?

What the fuck is this?
A teenage wasteland?

[Paranoid_android]

Depends on what you will be doing with your laptop, will you be encoding stuff? Running games? etc Cause It all depends on what you will do. If your just surfing and posting on BB and Emailing you dont need a core2duo... It's like buying a ferrari on a max 25MPH city

[raymor]

The dual core won't do you any good 99% of the time. You're considering replacing a
2.8GHz procesor with a 2Ghz one, so it would be considerably slower.

You probably don't do too many things that really make good use of a multi-Ghz processor -
maybe encoding video, playing games perhaps, or searching a thousand emails.
Only if you do two or more processor intensive tasks at once will having dual cores
do you any good at all. On a server it might be a different matter - you may have several
customers running a processor intensive script at once, so it would be good to have a
couple of processor cores. Secondly, if you do buy a dual core at some point I'd encourage
you to look at an AMD instead of the Intel. AMD has a much better dual core design.
The Intel only has two of one tiny part. Most of the time the bottleneck will still be in
other parts of the processor that aren't duplicated. The AMD is more like having two
complete processors that can run at full speed simultaneously.

[aidantrent]

Our office is currently replacing our old Centrino notebooks (which are P4-based) with Core2 Duos. In a word: they fly. If you do anything more than browse the web, you'll see the difference instantly. The P4 line was horribly inefficient, so those 3Ghz clock speeds are easily out-performed by the Core line running at 1.8Ghz. They're also much more energy-efficient, and thus cooler, than the P4s.

I'm normally a big AMD fanboy, but Intel really got the Core lineup right. You won't regret the upgrade

[rock-reed]

Awesome!
THANKS!