Speed issue: CPU or RAM????????

abetarrush

Hey

At the moment I have a PC with a 2.93Ghz Celeron Processor and 256MB RAM

I'm gettin a Macbook in August, with a 1.83Ghz Core Duo processor and 1GB RAM

How would this compare to my PC I have now????


Jus wonderin, what usually determines the speed, is it your CPU or the amount of RAM ye have?

Thanks

mukki

it depends!

but probably ram in your system

abetarrush

mukki wrote:

it depends!

but probably ram in your system

yeah, and my comp is a piece o shit, the motherboard is fxcked

L31mr0d

like everything, it depends (the type of ram, the type of processor, etc). What do you use your computer for anyway? RAM is usefull for programs and applications that require a lot of data to be available for access quickly (photoshop or oracle being an example) the CPU is usefull for handling execution of processes and programs.

But for your case, a core duo at 1.83Ghz would trounce a 2.93 celeron, purely because its dual core. Thats a pretty sweet laptop for most applications you'll want to use, and the 1Gb RAM is needed for most of the applications people with MACs want to use (i.e. CAD)

abetarrush

L31mr0d wrote:

like everything, it depends (the type of ram, the type of processor, etc). What do you use your computer for anyway? RAM is usefull for programs and applications that require a lot of data to be available for access quickly (photoshop or oracle being an example) the CPU is usefull for handling execution of processes and programs.

But for your case, a core duo at 1.83Ghz would trounce a 2.93 celeron, purely because its dual core. Thats a pretty sweet laptop for most applications you'll want to use, and the 1Gb RAM is needed for most of the applications people with MACs want to use (i.e. CAD)

I mainly use it for the web, music, YouTube vids and MSN, then Downloadin from P2P every now n again


cheers

jesus_thats_gre

The laptop would be far superior at a guess.

colm_c

Plus the fact that the Macbooks are duo-core which effectively means that they have 2 processors.

More RAM in a Mac is also much more important than a PC, because the OS needs at least 256 to run. The MacBook will be a serious improvement on the PC.