Dual Core / Dual Processor AMD

[Vincent Trouilliez]

ruscook <ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I'm 1/2way through setting up my new dual core system and it flies!!!
> I'm vERY impressed with this. VMware feels damn close to native speed
> AND you can do things in the host OS because of the multiple cores.

He he... it's nice indeed ! :-)
Currently I have a 5 year old 1.5Ghz Athlon XP CPU.
Last week my buddy bought a 2.4GHz dual core AMD CPU, and indeed it
flies. He uses Mandrake/Mandriva, but I set up VMWare on his machine to
show him Edgy, and Edgy runs faster as a guest OS on his machine, than
it runs as a host on mine ! :-O  :-)
It's nice to fire up "top" and watch the load being dynamically
balanced across the two CPU's.

It really demonstrated to me, that dual core CPU's are very beneficial
to "normal" desktop computers, not just geek machines.

And Intel is launching 4 core CPU's in a couple weeks... VMware +
Compiling something + Playing a big 3D game + recording a TV show with
on the fly MPEG encoding + rendering a 3D pic/scene, all at the same
time with a 100% responsive desktop... oh, computing is getting more
and more fun/useful every year ! :-)

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Vince