quick answer on processor speed???

[dbarton]

any idea of comparing speed on:

Pentium4 2.2 ghz -VS- Pentium Dual Core T2060 (1.6ghz)

 

[jpeyton]

Pentium Dual Core T2060 is basically a Core Duo with 1MB L2 cache.

Performance should be noticeably faster than a P4 2.2GHz, especially when multitasking or using multithreaded applications.

 

[Shawn]

Well I guess that depends on what you are doing. If you are running a single program which only utilizes one core then I would suspect that the P4 would be faster but once you start doing multiple tasks the Dual Core should be faster.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: Shawn
Well I guess that depends on what you are doing. If you are running a single program which only utilizes one core then I would suspect that the P4 would be faster but once you start doing multiple tasks the Dual Core should be faster.

Core architecture is faster than Netburst, clock for clock. I would argue that single threaded applications would still run faster on the T2060.

 

[Philippine Mango]

LOL with out a doubt, the core duo will be WAYYY faster... Hell even a Pentium M 1.7 would be faster than that and thats much older architecture.

 

[dbarton]

Very good, thanks!!

There's a cheap laptop with a t2250 (1.73m /533 / 2m cache). Maybe I need it. 🙂

Does Vista need more CPU than XP?

 

[Lord Evermore]

Not really a whole lot of reason to go to Vista at all at the moment. Driver support is bad, performance is lower, hardware requirements are higher, and there hasn't been any Service Pack yet.

Vista doesn't need significantly more CPU power, just memory and graphics power. The minimum requirement is higher than XP, but once you pass a certain performance level, increased CPU doesn't make much difference for the OS itself (hard drive speed helps much more at that point).