Well, if any of you have been following the Consumer Electronics Show this year, maybe you have noticed that Intel has partnered up with Acer to unleash the first line of notebooks offering a new Dual-Core Pentium M/Centrino processor that is due out around the start of Spring, known as Centrino Duo. I sort of wonder if Dell is gonna be getting into this sooner or later. This is a wake-up call to everybody, including myself. You can read all about it on CNet's website here:
http://www.cnet.com/4520-6022_1-6410042-1.htmlI sort of wonder if this'll have about the same technology the Pentium-D has out. Of course, the Pentium-D is also 64-bit, I don't see anything about the Centrino Duo having this. This is certainly an interesting turn of events.
I thought Microsoft said they had a bit of a show stopper on dual core?
Wonder what's going on? <shrug>
I've been on AMD dualcore 4000 for the past two months and i love it!
I'm sure Intel's exprience will be just as smooth but for me, AMD had a better track record with it's dual cores compared to the P4 dual core intel had at the time.
Centrino is a completely new ball game.
Either way, i'm set for a few years soo :)
I thought Microsoft said they had a bit of a show stopper on dual core?
Every OS has issues with dual processor machines - mostly comes down to wait states for certain parts of the kernal - afaik Windows suffers the least from it but still could do with a major overhaul if MS want it to run as efficiently as it could on multi processor.
Maybe they don't feel inclined to spend on making that overhaul, perhaps that's why they saw it as a show stopper for them.
This was reported on "This Week In Tech" going back to maybe August or September last year. I could be wrong about the date, but that's about when I feel it was mantioned.
Bottom line was, that it worked (as in it will run), but it's not what the industry itself was expecting or hoping for in terms of performance & reliability.
Anyhoo, "dual" anything is generally a sign that things are not as fast/big/cheap as was hoped, and that more development time is needed for a truly acceptable replacement for what ever the "dualled" item was. Be that CPU, GPU, whatever. Even dual monitors is largely a sign that widescreen did not happen fast enough or cheap enough in most cases where it's used. Oh there's always exceptions, but mostly they are not the case, of course.
My plan is presently to wait until such time as it's clearly, obviously & demonstrably good enough while being affordable. I suppose "worthwhile" would be a good word here!
What's a dual core please guyts - and can you explain why this is a good thing?
I would love to know more as I have just turned a job down which required Pentium D dual core and MCE OS.
IPete2.
wha? I pete2. go to www.TomsHardware.com and look up Dual-Core CPUs they explain it well. Quite how a job can "require" you to have a certain CPU is beyond me, unless they meant knowledge of said CPU, but then that would seem pointless also.
I know - the application looks for the os (although reading the docs, it says it is targeted at Pentium D Dual Core processors, although it doesn look for the family)
It does however look for Media Centre Edition OS - which I dont have either :(
IPete2.
IPete2, you should have come to me. I have more Dual-Core CPU's lying around than I know what to do with! ;)