Add up to what? An extra minute a day? Have a blast! :) Anyway, nobody's arguing a faster system isn't nicer and that the more cores you can bring to the party the better. I'm only pointing out there are many, probably most, office tasks where CPU is totally irrelevant. Consider that it takes 10 minutes to do a mail merge, a typical office task. Now, if your icons open twice as fast with a multicore, the project takes how long? 9:55? WTF cares? Relax
.If you've got a system that you find yourself waiting on, I'd suggest reinstalling the OS, as any modern computer should be able to run the gui real snappy. I think we'll all be happy when the OS begins to take care of the multi threading. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You must have missed the part where I said this was true for *office* >> apps. AFAIK, none of them are coded for multi cores. So until the OS >> itself does multi core, I'm still confident that, all else being >> equal, nobody working in Word will see any difference at all. > > No, I didn't miss that, but I don't agree with that assessment. > Having a system with less wait time to execute functions is well worth > it in my book. Those seconds add up and an app doesn't have to > explictly coded to work on multi-core for you to benefit. The OS is > and will act accordingly. > > I dread working on my older P4 Dell Optiplex systems as I know I'll be > waiting for things that just happen on my AMD dual-core Dell > Optiplexes, which are "office" systems. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
