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Why are you using a fancy 2.8Ghz dual-core machine when you could be using a netbook from 2008 with a 1.6Ghz Atom and 512MB of RAM? Is it that strange that peo
by opencl 9y ago
Why are you using a fancy 2.8Ghz dual-core machine when you could be using a netbook from 2008 with a 1.6Ghz Atom and 512MB of RAM?
Is it that strange that people have different use cases from you? Plenty of things peg the CPU at 100% for extended periods of time: video encodes, 3D renders, building code, slicing for 3D printers, etc. Certainly I could do my work on a dual core machine, and I did until a few months ago, but there are competing machines that are cheaper and offer twice the performance. Why would you not want a quad core CPU when they are the exact same price as the old dual core models?
- nookoking 9y agoMy thinkpad doesn't have a lot of leeway for newer CPUs. 2.8Ghz was what it came with and I paid $60 for this Spartan of a passion project. 512MB is unusable on a machine with a modern use case. You're looking at some tiny linux distro and a no-js opensource web browser. Dual core, because it came with it. And also because I don't trust any programmer to make thread-safe programs. Firefox/Pulse/etc. regularly destroy my core usage. That second core is so I can go to another TTY and kill the malefactor. Otherwise, I would need to power cycle. I would be using 2GB of RAM, but this W500 came with a 4GB stick of DDR2. It was released in 2008 too. Funny thing, my Centrino 2 vPro has a 6MB CPU cache while my workstation-class $700 Lenovo 8-core laptop only had 4MB and now sits in a closet as my homeserver.