i bought an ACER 5100 with an AMD quad-core. was under $600 delivered, with
most everything on it. came with good set of bells and whistles and an
acceptable video card.. have little use for the quad core, or the speed, but
at that price, it is difficult to buy much of anything for much
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:19 AM, gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i bought an ACER 5100 with an AMD quad-core. was under $600 delivered,
with most everything on it. came with good set of bells and whistles and an
acceptable video card.. have little use for the quad core, or the speed,
but
I will be buying a new Dell computer next week and I'm a little confused
about all of the new processors even after reading wikipedia articles so I
thought I would ask you guys (always a big help in the past - THANKS very
much and TIA here too!).
So the question is - which processor would be
For office machines like you describe, the performance of a single
core machine will be indistinguishable from a multi-core machine. The
sweet spot price-wise right now is the dual cores, so get one of
those. For your needs I wouldn't pay a penny extra for any more than
that.
That your newer
For office machines like you describe, the performance of a single
core machine will be indistinguishable from a multi-core machine...
Absolutely! Intel has been stuck, unable to boost the performance of its
processors. So they pull this multi-core PR trick. Multi-core if of
benefit only in
Absolutely! Intel has been stuck, unable to boost the performance of
its processors. So they pull this multi-core PR trick. Multi-core if of
benefit only in certain situations and depends on the OS and
applications developers writing code that divides work among the cores.
Often they
don't
