On Thursday 09 September 2010, BlueHandTalking wrote: > So is there a significant difference in the speed of, for example a > 2.4Ghz duo core, versus a 2.4 Ghz i5?
I recently upgraded from a 2.0 GHz Core Duo (without "2") to a 1.83 GHz i7. The change also involved going from 3GB RAM to 8GB. Effectively a 4 year technology jump. There is a noticeable speed improvement, but nothing to get excited about. I have a hunch that an SSD instead of the spindly drive would have been more effective, and possibly even more cost effective. I'll try this when they come down in price some more. The reasoning behind my hunch is that ordinary web apps just aren't CPU-bound and well-behaved development tools aren't either (so Eclipse/RadRails and NetBeans don't qualify all of the time). Both mentioned computers are notebooks (Dell D820 and M6500) running Debian Linux. My advice: For your purposes, there probably isn't a noticeable speed difference between a 2.4GHz dual core and a quad core of the same generation; 4GB RAM is the minimum; see if you can try out how an SSD affects speed (and tell us about your experience). Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
