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Originally Posted by DJNafey
The first was an Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. It was a Core 2 Duo 1.66GHz with 1GB RAM and I was very disappointed.
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Someone made a bad choice here (Acer in my opinion). That processor is slow at 1.66GHz per core. Even the quads ship at 2.66GHz or 2.68GHz which is still slower than many P4 single cores.
In a standard PC you can overclock these CPU's up to 3.4GHZ to 3.7GHz easily but I don't know about a laptop.
The idea was to spread the CPU usage over multiple cores but these cores run slower than a standard single core. Unless the software is geared to split itself on the cores your programs are going to run at 1.66GHz which is a very slow processor in today's terms.
I am just experimenting with my first quad core and it is quite tricky to set them up even when you can overclock.
Of course just my salty opinion.
