[ILUG] Trying to buy a ThinkPad

[Timothy Murphy]

On Saturday 04 February 2006 19:05, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > What is all this dual-core stuff?
>
> The wave of the future. CPU manufacturers were having a hard time
> making their processors faster, because power consumption was
> increasing too. A dual core cpu is effectively two CPUs packaged on one
> die. You don't get higher absolute speed so e.g. your Dhrystone
> benchmark won't run any faster, but the real world performance of your
> system will be faster as the numerous processes running get to share 2
> CPUs instead of 1.

What I found a little puzzling is that some of the reviews I read
(sorry, didn't keep the URLs)
said that the battery times on the T60 (and X60)
were extraordinarily long -
one mentioned 11 hours, though when one read down the review
this seemed to shrink to 9 hours.

I don't see why dual-core should use less juice?

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