[TriLUG] Shopping for new laptop...

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

>> 1) I'd prefer going AMD;  is there a problem or caveat if I go with one
>> of their 64-bit X2 chips?

most (all?) dual core processors don't have any more 
bandwidth to memory than the single cores. This means that 
if one core is running an app acessing memory then the other 
core has to run out of cache, if it's going to run at all. 
But then dual core doesn't cost a whole lot more, even if 
you can't use it all the time.

Joe
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