Many thanks for the helpful reply. Chris
On 6 May, 22:09, KwikOne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > [email protected].> To unsubscribe from this group, > > send email [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 > [email protected] unsubscribe from this group, send > email [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.
