Steve Cook wrote: > I most admit they are getting quite cheap, to the point where it's very > hard not be able to justify them. > > steve > >
Yep, the Pentium Dual-Core chips are pretty good value for the money, they're plenty fast enough for most desktop needs, I wouldn't have thought a normal user (maybe someone who browses the web, does a bit of OOo and e-mail) would need anything more than one of them. I got one for my PC and it a lot faster than my old Athlon 64 3000+. The one thing I can't get my head around though is scaling on the CPUs. I've noticed in top that some programs run at over 100% (I think java at one point was running at 253%), so I presume that it runs everything from one CPU and just spreads the load when one CPU core is maxed out, although I'm probably wrong about it :-) Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
