kelley Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Our computer supplier at work recently set me up with a demo unit of one of their current Dual Core Pentium D desktop and a preproduction test machine of their soon to be released Core Duo laptops. I've been using the laptop and one of my power users has been using the desktop. I will never own a non-dual core system again. I will no longer purchase at work for anyone who does any decent amount of work a non-dual core CPU. One of the things I did when I first got them was load up Visual Studio 2005, while I surfed the net, looked at forums, watched videos, checked email, opened random apps....the system never hitched, it was smooth as can be. Try that on even a hyper threaded machine and you'll get hitches and even lock ups. We then ran a massive SQL read/write query and just went about daily work while the query ran in the background, couldn't even tell the query was running. I had to send the units back, but we got in two Pentium D based desktops today and everyone has been begging for one. I'm back to using my 2.0Ghz Pentium M based laptop and it sucks, I want my Core Duo back. To sum it up: Dual Core rocks and I will never own a non-Dual Core system again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 To sum it up:Dual Core rocks and I will never own a non-Dual Core system again. Applications have to be written specifically for it? To get the most speed boost? Like people will be complaining that Photoshop isn't written for it yet for 3 years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 I assumed that we're talking about Windows-based systems here, not Mac ones. Not sure why. But all that you need to show off the wonder of Dual Core is to do multiple things at once, and marvel at the SMP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBardon Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Sounds pretty sweet-I definitely have to get work to buy me one of those. I've noticed that VS2005 slows down a lot more often than 2003 did, so a dual core might help there. Of course, that could also be that Visual Studio just needs a service pack-if I remember the first release of VS.net was pretty buggy as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Sure, tell me that a week after I drop $1700 on a new notebook! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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