It's likely to be nowhere near twice as quick even doing two tasks at once

Also depends whether it's true dual core (ie. two processors) or whether it's one of those that looks like it has two processors but really only has one (I forget what that's called...). The latter doesn't really give much benefit in my experience with work PCs.

However, from the spec it looks fine for a little old lady.

Posted By: BerlinCanary on November 17th 2008 at 17:56:54

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PC Advice needed... can someone tell me if this is a good deal? (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 15:48:10
- Looks like it only has an inbuilt soundcard - not a good idea? (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:46:25
  - To be fair, none of my PCs have dedicated soundcards. (General Chat) - Arganth, Nov 17, 16:51:40
  - My machine has a built-in soundcard, and it's no problem. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:49:21
    - Excellent. We only have a little 2.1 system that'll be plugged into the earphone jack (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:51:36
- Re : the lack of OS discs. (General Chat) - Arganth, Nov 17, 16:42:22
  - Except the lack of discs could indicate that it's knock off (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 17, 17:50:35
- In theory its quicker than 3.6 as you have 2 processors so the theory is (General Chat) - megson, Nov 17, 15:59:03
  - It's likely to be nowhere near twice as quick even doing two tasks at once (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 17, 17:56:54
  - No - not quite. If the processor has only one task to complete, (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:02:08
    - yeah that's as complicated as you need to be for me! (General Chat) - megson, Nov 17, 16:12:17
      - Heh, quad core would make very little difference for that (General Chat) - scruffy, Nov 17, 19:19:23
      - Ha ha. No, it isn't, but it'll do. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:13:02
        
        Brilliant, so I'm right then? (LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU) (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Nov 17, 16:21:07
    - Depends how you define "task"... (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:03:44
      - Yeah. I wrote about a paragraph about "when I say 'task', I don't mean a single program" (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:05:00
        
        Right. Here is what it will be used for (typically) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:08:32
        
        Sounds like the only hitch to all that (General Chat) - pants, Nov 17, 16:34:38
        
        Acsherlly the best performance boost to any FM edition is a fast hard drive (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:35:32
        
        "Look at some photos" (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 17, 16:29:58
        
        *Shudder*. It's my mum we're talking about here (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:33:52
        
        Roluf. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:31:03
        
        It'll be fine. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:11:16
- The "10/100 NIC" is a WIRED network adapter, not wireless. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 15:54:22
  - "Dual core" DOESN'T mean that you can double the quoted speed figure, mores the pity. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 15:57:23
    - But depending on what it is doing it can perform faster than a (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:00:48
      - Yeah, depends what it's doing. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:03:25
    - ^^^ i'd listen to him rather than me TBH lee. (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Nov 17, 15:59:53
    - Blimey. Check out the pens in this thread. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Nov 17, 15:59:45
      - It's a cracking pens thread (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Nov 17, 16:06:07
    - Apart from that, for the money, it doesn't look too bad at all. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 15:59:39
      - Umm. There's nothing in the specs to back this up, but looking at the picture, it looks (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:10:05
        
        OK. Final query. Presumably we will see a notable difference in speed (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:19:40
        
        Only thing I can say is, the best pc we have at home (General Chat) - pants, Nov 17, 16:25:29
        
        You ought to notice a decent improvement. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:24:55
        
        So is FireFox... (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 17, 18:00:53
        
        Yeah, kind of what I'm saying too, jumping from 256mb to a 1gb should feel superfast (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Nov 17, 16:28:45
        
        Yes, pants, you are right as well (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:29:57
        
        I know - I can't stand it personally, but I can't convince her to use anything else... (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:28:29
        
        My wife refused to upgrade from her (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:32:38
        
        haha, that's a turnaround of events (General Chat) - pants, Nov 17, 16:38:05
        
        To improve speed of starting up Outlook.... (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:23:12
  - OK - not a big issue as router is next to PC anyway (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 15:55:41

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