Best Laptop Processors
by admin on 19/07/10 at 4:01 am
Every single manufacturer is having their very own family of dual core processors–Of them the Core 2 Duo & Dual Core for the Intel and from AMD’s side it’s the Athlon 64 x 2 and AMD Turion x 2.
The Single Core processors
Intel brings in the following Single Core Processors:
Centrino and the
Pentium 4
From AMD family they are the
Athlon &
The Turion
Older family of processors such as the Pentium 4’s are rapidly turning obsolete technology with the passing time owing to sheer inability to compete with the updated generations of processors, in the aspect of performance and also battery durability.
The Laptop processor that suits your needs
If you are still willing to run the Windows XP on a scale budget, and you really just use the Laptop for general purpose then the single core processor is pretty much fine for it, for the single cores I’d be more preferring to go along with the Intel with a good reputation in terms of performance very well.
But if you’re in search of something with a little more CPU power, and you don’t bother the additive cost then I would recommend you to g for the dual core. From the point of view of the manufacturers both the Intel and the AMD are quite similar here; both are quality processor manufacturing companies, so you can go for either a Core Duo 2 or the Turion x 2
Note that if you wish upgrading to the dual core ensure any sort of applications support from the multi threading or else there will be no obvious performance enhancement over the single core having equivalent speed.
Pros and Cons of the Dual Core Processors
The Dual core processors are way too faster than the single core equivalent processors
They are a little expensive as compared to the single core processor, but remember the price is always falling
They are having slightly lesser battery life as compared to the single core processors.
They generate more heat owing to their design
Software requires to be written in order to take the full benefit of the multiple cores, this often used to be more of an issue to deal with.
So, before you make the final choice, take into consideration of your requirements and then make the last bet.
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