Computer question
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forthegame
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A lot!
IMHO, your old PC looks like it will grind to a halt with that miniscule amount of RAM.
IMHO, your old PC looks like it will grind to a halt with that miniscule amount of RAM.
autumn_leaf
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your computer looked fine for most things till i got to the ram. wow. wonder if you could just replace the ram in your current setup.
then again it depends on what you want your computer to do. if i were testing it against a computer game then the laptop would probably be around 2-10 times faster on any given game, though i would say any current titles would require at least 256mb of ram while averaging 512mb.
then again it depends on what you want your computer to do. if i were testing it against a computer game then the laptop would probably be around 2-10 times faster on any given game, though i would say any current titles would require at least 256mb of ram while averaging 512mb.
autumn_leaf
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lol. one of my high school counselors still had an old mac, 64mb memory...as in hard drive... not sure if it still ran in ms dos to be honest.
esgee48
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The answer will depend on what you want to do with your new computer. From a strictly speed of executing instructions pov, you may see a 2-3x increase. That's if you run the same software. Can't give a precise answer because your old system may be tuned for running what's on there now. New software is bloated; new OS's are bloated if Apple or MS. If you plan on making movies, doing lots of graphical rendering, etc. the new machine is not enough. Think 4 core, 16-32 GB memory and 1 TB HD. It is probably OK for game play depending on the graphics card.
If your old machine can be upgraded to 4 GB of memory, it will probably run at least 2x faster.
If your old machine can be upgraded to 4 GB of memory, it will probably run at least 2x faster.
Fugazi
Professional
Thanks guys. I'm not looking for high performance at all, I don't really play video games or watch movies on the computer. I basically want a computer that stays fast even with 3-4 simultaneous programs running, and when I play Flash vids or YouTube. I'm thinking of getting either the dual core Pentium or an Intel 3 processor.
Fugazi
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Turns out I will probably go for an i5-2450M laptop. Two choices:
1) Acer i5-2450M: processor speed is 2.5 GHz, RAM is 8 GB, RAM speed is 1333, two processor cores (dual core).
2) Samsung i5-2450M: only difference is that the processor speed is 2.45 GHz instead of 2.5.
What do you think? I know Acer doesn't have the best reputation compared to Samsung, but I'd like to to know if the extra 100$ (115$ with taxes) is worth it.
1) Acer i5-2450M: processor speed is 2.5 GHz, RAM is 8 GB, RAM speed is 1333, two processor cores (dual core).
2) Samsung i5-2450M: only difference is that the processor speed is 2.45 GHz instead of 2.5.
What do you think? I know Acer doesn't have the best reputation compared to Samsung, but I'd like to to know if the extra 100$ (115$ with taxes) is worth it.
autumn_leaf
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I agree with this. It's very cpu intensive. Streaming videos online also tends to heat up laptops pretty quickly, this goes the same with flash based games.
autumn_leaf
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I would look up reviews on both, Amazon tends to be a good place. I switched to macbooks because all my window's laptops broke within 3 years without doing anything but word processing and streaming videos.
