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M vs Duo

post #1 of 16
3/9/06 at 4:38pm
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I'm about to buy a laptop ( as a second computer ) and i need to know something more specific...

Since i'm a graphic designer i'm working with more than 1 soft open... Photoshop, illustrator, Dreamweaver, Quark and i'm slowly getting into video editing...

Just from here i guess i MUST go with duo... since my 2year old solo core P4 3.0 is getting laggy.

But i've read somewhere can't remember where someone was said that Duo 1.66 compare to a PM 2.0 is that true? or even if the cpu speed is 1.66 since it's duo it will be faster than a Solo 2.0??

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P-Y
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post #2 of 16
3/9/06 at 5:13pm
Good question, I am about to buy a HP dv8000t with a 2.0GHz duo core tomorrow and I was trying to get a idea of how fast it will be compared to a conventional single core pentium core. In other words would you say that it would be as fast, faster, or slower than a 3.4 GHz pentium M?
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post #3 of 16
3/9/06 at 7:49pm
Well, right now there is no 3.4GHZ Pentium M.

The Duo really outperforms during heavy multiple application use. It's really the only time there is significant improvement over the M.
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post #4 of 16
3/9/06 at 7:54pm
well not really heavy multiple apps, just have multiple apps in general or mulithreaded apps(such as photoshop) open will have decently improved performance
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post #5 of 16
3/9/06 at 8:16pm
if there was a 3.4ghz pentium M the pentium M would smoke it.
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post #6 of 16
3/9/06 at 9:52pm
Pentium 4 3 GHz getting laggy? I can't belive it.

I bet you should check your system for bottlenecks (hard drive or RAM) and for trojans and other malware.
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post #7 of 16
3/9/06 at 10:48pm
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i'm working on huge file last week i was on a 30" x 40" @ 300dpi... that's why it get laggy the only bottleneck i can see is the 7200rpm HD... no spyware or trojan.
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post #8 of 16
3/10/06 at 3:48am
check all your drivers, maybe do a clean install. Ot take out the trash.
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post #9 of 16
3/10/06 at 4:05am
The image you were working on would take up 412 MB of RAM if it's uncompressed in memory (not sure how Photoshop does it behind the scenes). So the question is, how much memory do you have? If you have 512 MB then there'd be hardcore page-file swapping which would be very very slow. If you have at least 1 GB and no other programs were running, you should be fine.
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post #10 of 16
3/10/06 at 4:17am
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Originally Posted by P-Y
i'm working on huge file last week i was on a 30" x 40" @ 300dpi... that's why it get laggy the only bottleneck i can see is the 7200rpm HD... no spyware or trojan.

go with the duo. you are absolutely right how you answered your own questions in the first post. Running that kind of load will definitely benefit from the extra core, and get something more than the 1.6 duo. you wont regret it.
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post #11 of 16
3/19/06 at 6:54pm
I belive it's a RAM issue, but having more processing power doesn't hurt.
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post #12 of 16
3/19/06 at 7:32pm
A very detailed comparison of pentium m vs core duo notebooks.

http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=2663&p=7
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post #13 of 16
3/19/06 at 7:32pm
A year from now a lot of software will be written for dual cores. They will be in many desktops and a fair number of laptops by then. If you appreciate a device you'll still love a year from now, I'd stay on the dual core track. If you need more GPU power to go with a core duo, wait a bit and that will come
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post #14 of 16
3/20/06 at 11:51am
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Originally Posted by mikemex
Pentium 4 3 GHz getting laggy? I can't belive it.

I bet you should check your system for bottlenecks (hard drive or RAM) and for trojans and other malware.
Huh? Are you on drugs? A 3.0 is very laggy when you load it with dozens of programs, dual core is the way to go.
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post #15 of 16
3/20/06 at 11:59am
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Originally Posted by 1c3d0g
Huh? Are you on drugs? A 3.0 is very laggy when you load it with dozens of programs, dual core is the way to go.
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post #16 of 16
3/20/06 at 7:14pm
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Originally Posted by Anemone
A year from now a lot of software will be written for dual cores. They will be in many desktops and a fair number of laptops by then. If you appreciate a device you'll still love a year from now, I'd stay on the dual core track. If you need more GPU power to go with a core duo, wait a bit and that will come
Don't get me wrong on this, I also would suggest the Duo now, but I don't think you are right with most of the software being multithreaded in a year.

There are Dual-Core computers out there for some years and almost no program is multithreading and that has a simple reason: "It's not that simple to write multithreaded applications as you add just another couple of thousand ways to add a bug to your program - and in multithreading bugs normally mean that a program does not react anymore or behaves really nasty, not just a few misplaced lines of graphics."

Looking at those buggy programs that you see out there at the moment (betatesting for ms with every product they release for example) most companies just don't have time to create even more bugs
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