Matt I'm surprised that a dual processor machine came with only 1 Gb of RAM - I thought it was more common these days to ship with 1 Gb of Ram per processor.
However, the differences between multi core and multi processor are rather ambiguous as depending on the manufacturer they can mean the same thing! Generally speaking multi core processors share the same DIN whereas multi processors each have their own seperate socket. But, as long as things work, thats great - just bear in mind what Chris says about the fact that unless you are running multiple processes / apps, you won't generally see much of a difference in performance in apps, as, referring back to a pre Xmas posting, very few apps on Linux are multi threading yet. HTH E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Douglas Sent: 26 December 2007 18:44 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-Core = less not more? On 26/12/2007, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I was one of the many who purchased the Dell laptops when they shipped here in the UK with Ubuntu pre-installed. I've got a Pentium Dual-Core chip (not a core-duo although I'm not sure what the difference is!) installed and although /proc/cpuinfo shows both cores as seperate processors, I'm really not convinced that the dual-core with 1024MB RAM is faster than my old 1.4GHz with 512MB RAM. I've got stock Gutsy installed on the laptop (upgraded from feisty using apt-get dist-upgrade) so if there are any packages that you think would be more beneficial, please let me know. One of the things I've stumbled upon in the forums is the possibility of running x64 on Core2-Duo processors - would that help me here? Cheers, Matt. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ I think there is a point where the performance just levels out. You will notice the difference when you run lots of apps at once. I dont know, but I'm running X86 on a 2x dual xeon machine with 8gb of ram, and it boots about the same time as my dual core 3.6ghz 2gb ram, but is much better on performance, when running say, lots of applications, database stuff etc.. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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