On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:21:46PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
out that way. A dual core CPU draws more power than a single of the same clock speed and maybe more than one of higher performance.
The way I understood it with the Intel Core Duo 2 was that it pulls significantly less than any other (single or dual core) Intel CPU since the Pentium IV was introduced, and is a very good reason as to why my next machine will probably be Intel and not AMD. I even worked out if I was to leave my current Athlon XP on 24/7 it'd cost somewhere in the region of 131 quid in electricity per year (not counting when i've got the monitor on etc, that's just with the machine idle) but a newer style Mac Mini with the core duo cpu (running Linux of course) running 24/7 would cost in the region of 35 quid a year. Which nearly almost justifies buying one as it will /nearly/ pay for itself in 3 years.
A better was PC World could have put it would be to change "it allows" to "it Helps".
That certainly seems to fit better than their current tagline, ever thought about a career in advertising? ;)
Thanks Adam