I miss my Quad

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Dadofamunky

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At home I use the desktop in my sig. At work I use a Dell notebook with a 2.5GHz (or therabouts, can't recall) i5. The i5 is a complete dog. I can't stand using it.

Yep, my work machine is a Stinkpad (like that term, stealing it). It has a Core i5 quad 1st gen (2410?) and a spindle. Thing chokes constantly under my daily workload. I get home to do extra work and it just goes by like nothin'.
 

WhoBeDaPlaya

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When I am, ahem, "researching" the field of acts of human recreation of the close and personal kind I tend to find myself in the positon of having a browser session open with 20-30 tabs...and yes all those flash ads really do hog up the CPU usage :hmm:

Am I the only one who has noticed this? :sneaky:
Maybe you should have so many of these open. When they're big, they take more memory. :sneaky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlMpt4ucH2U
 

beginner99

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Yep, my work machine is a Stinkpad (like that term, stealing it). It has a Core i5 quad 1st gen (2410?) and a spindle. Thing chokes constantly under my daily workload. I get home to do extra work and it just goes by like nothin'.

And I guess that difference is due to HDD with ssd...Recently bought a X220 but I knew I would have no patience dealing with the HDD only so installed OS on mSATA SSD. It's great. Decent appliation load speed and no hickups and the pre-installed HDD gives you enough space for some media files. (and documents, but they dont' really use much space. ;))
 

gmaster456

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Yep, my work machine is a Stinkpad (like that term, stealing it). It has a Core i5 quad 1st gen (2410?) and a spindle. Thing chokes constantly under my daily workload. I get home to do extra work and it just goes by like nothin'.
The 2410m is a 2nd gen. What you probably have is the 480m. Just a guess.
 

WhoBeDaPlaya

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Umm...didn't Intel basically enable this with their SRT (ssd caching) on z68 chipset motherboards?
The key is Z68 motherboards. ExpressCache would work on everything, which would definitely be nice for folks still on X58 / Nehalem.