Now we are talking!! Core Duo's ROCK...

I am finally seeing what my new NX9420 can do. It's only a t2400 (1.83mhz w/o virtulization) but it is screaming tonight.

Right now I have Winamp playing a streaming video in the corner, VirtualPC 2007 creating an XP VPC, downloading Umbuntu, downloading Solaris 10 and am cleaning up a website for deployment tomorrow in VS2005 which means I have SQL 2005 running in the background as well as the built-in web server in visual studio...and I can still get stuff done!!

I can only imagine how a T7200 will run when I upgrade to one later this year. But there is absolutely zero lag for switching apps, saving files, or even compiling. Right now the

Core Temps ~59-60C
HDD ~35C,
CPU ~55C,
CPU Utilization ~65-68%
Mem. Useage ~600-800MB

Awesome...this would NEVER have been even close to doeable on my old systems...cannot wait to fire up a couple VPC's and see what happens. Haven't run VPC on this system yet so thought using the new VPC2007 would be a nice place to begin.

To me this is exactly the sort of performance I have been needing the past year...wooooooHooooooooo!!!

 

Good, good. It's good to hear that you can feel a difference with Core Duo.

 

Aye, I love the Core Duos, I ran a real big stress test when I first got my Dell. 15 instances of vlc playing mp3s, playing CSS, installing HL2 from CD, and it didn't skip a beat. It was the first dual core machine I'd ever used, and boy, it left an impression.

 

Wait until you guys work on a Quad Core system.

 

and here I promised out next system would be another just like this one...hmmmmm...quad core running Vista-64...dang we need SOLID STATE DRIVES.

I sure can feel the lag in the system is without any doubt the HDD and it is going to be quite some time before I will really be able to fully justify a new system...dang I HATE THAT...well, I could go back to writing desktop apps. Then I can justify Vista64 and a quad...hmmmmm....hehehehehe...good thing my better-half never ever reads this board. Heck, she doesn't even know it exists...it would suck if she saw I was already plotting for a new laptop 2-months after the new one.

 

I'm currently running x64 Vista, and my Quad handles it wonderfully.

It's the hard drive that's the bottleneck. Like you said, we need solid state drives!

 

Too bad Windows Media Video encoding still craws on my my core2duo 7200.

 

Going from a 2GHz AMD Turion to a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo was quite a difference as well

 

the MK series, x2 closes the gap a bit.

 

That may be Plattnnum

Intel is still a ways ahead, I can't wait until software becomes more multi-threaded and Intel releases their 4 or 8 core mobile procs, then things should really get exciting, but I have a feeling that won't be for a long while.

 

i think new drivers are coming out in march for further support of multi-threaded apps?

 

I hope so then we will be able to see what these dual core processors can really handle.

 

yes I can't wait...

 

I didn't really notice the difference between my old p4 and new C2D until when running just FF. However, i decided to see what C2Ds can really do so I opened 17 instances of 600X800 video and made iTunes rip CDs. Additionally, I was typing in Word and using IE7 without much lag. Amazing what power notebooks have these days!

 

Screw quad core, wait until you use an OS that can thread apps properly!

I'm up to 32 instances of vlc, all running the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Episode 1.avi, and still going strong.

 

T2500 and a gig of RAM here

still this thing rocks! ms word, pdf, download using ares, scanning with avas, using firefox, sometimes switching windows while playing BF and updating playlist for my mp3 player and still no lag... oh and i watched some 'videos' at some instances

i really noticed the improvement since PIII

 

Yes me too. Until I ran Pinnacle Studio to render a one hour movie.
Under my P4 1.6Ghz Centrino, it was taking 9 hours.
Under my Core 2 Duo nc8430, it takes only 47 minutes!
What a difference.

Steve

 

Wonderful...then it was not my meds these things are ROCKIN'!!

I do agree a 4x or better core will be amazing. But also as pointed out it won't be until they begin offering either re-written or re-compilied software that is truly multi-threaded, until we start seeing THAT we will not have a clue how power these really are...I wonder if that is why Intel is pushing the quad so soon after the dual cores? Maybe people would begin to feel fine with a dual core slowing the adoption of quads, thus giving AMD a chance to leap frog back ahead a bit.

It's an interesting game watching leetle AMD duel with Intel. And AMD has gone from nothing to a real competitor for Intel, especially if Intel ever slips even a tiny bit. We consumers really do see a benefit from that competition. Heck that might be the one area there is any real competition anymore.

Well, I never got my virtual machines (and yeah I have hardware virtualization turned off as this is a T2400 in BIOS) running last night but that was my fault. Gonna take another whack at it tonight though...fun to have a system that actually does not labor with a few apps and a couple browsers open.

I am now willing to praise Dell for selling me such a POS i8500....THANK YOU DELL...hehehehehehe...

All worship the mighty HP