Category: Geeks r Us
Hey all, down a ways in geek-R-us, was a post about laptops. Well, I posted about mine, then went over to best buy to see if they still had it. Lol, they have one just like it except for the duo technology. Is this becoming the norm now? Do y'all have computers or laptops with a duo core? Also, how do the screen readers deal with it? I don't think I know much about it. I'm picturing when you boot up, you can choose which hard drive to get on? Some good geeker out there pass along some further information please. windows Apple, duo duo duo.
It has nothing to do with hard drives. it's to do with the CPU of the machine. A dual core processor basically means that you've got a pair of processors in your machine instead of a single one. This allows your computer to do double the tasks per second than with a single processor.
Ahhh thanks. Lol!
The Core Duo technology that is now monopolizing laptops is, as guitargod1 says, built on a two-CPU chip design, whereby two processors are bridged to improve system performance, especially those functions which require a lot of system resources (this is slightly exclusive of video games, as their processing is GPU reliant, not CPU).
The Core Duo specification also lowers power consumption to approximately 25-watts, presumably improving laptop longevity. I'm still a bit confused on this point, since I've seen Pentium M's with battery life ratings of 3 to 4 hours contiguous running, whilst Core Duo only managed about two to two and a half hours.
For more on the Duo Core chip technology, read <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2_Duo">this article</A> from <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia.</A>
If you plan to get a laptop, wait until Merom (the Core 2 mobile processor) comes out. I no the performance isn't a major improvement, but you'll have the latest for a little while. lol Core 2 duo is better than AMD for the time being, so this is what I'd get. Also, power consumption is way down in desktops. At least that's what I read in a few reviews for Conroe (the desktop equivalent of Merom.) This will of course change. I was reading in the news the other day that some students at a university came up with a way of producing processor power in the THZ range, and were able to keep power consumption the same or a little lower than today's processors.