Franki wrote:
Frank,hmmm,, Normally I'd agree with that, I wouldn't buy a P4 CPU unless hell froze over sometime soon...However, my boss is about to supply me with a Dell Inspiron 8200 fully kitted for me at no cost to myself.. Its got a 2 or 2.2gig CPU in it. (dunno which yet) and its a P4 :-( but I'll love it anyway... If AMD made comparable laptop CPU's... (the tests I have seen thus far on AMD mobile CPU's have not been "inspiring" to say the least..) but even if a 2.2 P4 CPU is only as fast as my AMD 1800XP.. then I will be happy because I am currently writing this email on a Overclocked Celeron 300A (464mhz totally stable, uptime 3 weeks.) but not overly inspiring on speed either. :-) As long as Mandrake runs on it, I will be happy. rgds Frank
The thing is: Does one really notice a real difference above say 1.5Ghz if the machine is endowed with the proper amount of RAM for the OS and apps being run on the machine? ( proper amount of RAM = 256 minimum ). I know I haven't. Most of what I do on my machines and those at work are coding. I can imagine it would be a different story all together if one were doing a lot of heavy graphics work. Then I believe one would notice the difference.
Mark
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