First, either one is perfectly fine for almost everything. You would not be able to tell a difference (caveat: providing all else is the same such as same amount of memory, hard disk size, graphics adapter, installed software). How much memory does each have, and what size/make hard disk? And what would you be doing that you could perceive a performance issue? The reason I ask is that with a slower processor, faster disk and more memory the perceived performance (how you determine it by how applications respond) would be the same or most likely better. But, with equivalent everything the slower processor would most likely be perceived to be the same if the processor speeds are better than 1GHz. I say 'perceived' because the CPU clock rate factor in the total performance can be as much as 50% difference and the average human will not be able to tell the difference with most applications (email, browsing the web, viewing movies, etc) and it would only be on extended CPU intensive operations that the difference would be marked (such as doing a video conversion from DVD to .avi)
On May 4, 5:54 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > i have an old dell inspiron 6000 and want to replace it with an acer > aspire one 751 (the one with the 11.6" screen). > > I like the lightness of the acer and would lik eto take it on my > travels but am a bit worried about the processor. does anyone have > any idea of how the performance of the acer would compare with my > dell? the chips are: > > acer - intel atom z520, 1.22 ghz > dell - intel pentium m 1.86 ghz > > grateful for any advice! > > many thanks > > chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Computer Tech Support" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en.
