Processing Power

[Reid]

So I have my eye on a new laptop. It has near perfect specs (6GB ram, 6 hour battery, 600 GB HDD, etc). The only thing I'm shying away from is the processor. It is a AMD quad core 1.5GHz

I know that a quad core is great for a laptop, but I'm not sure about the 1.5GHz. AFAIK 1.5GHz isn't very good, so would the 4 cores counteract the low speed, or is the low speed good, or what's going on? I was always told that the higher the Hertz the better it was

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[utrack]

With old apps it's pretty bad - they don't know how to use many cores, so they'll just occupy 100% of one core.
But for newer ones 4x1.5 is very good

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[Agmen of Eladesor]

As utrack mentions - something older, like Freelancer, is only going to use one core anyway. But the nice thing about old apps is that even running at 1.5 GHz, that single core is still probably faster than the app was originally designed to run on in the first place. (That reminds me of an old game I used to have - it was designed for a 20 MHz system. (Yeah, I've been at this for a while.) It was basically unplayable when, just for fun, I loaded it onto a newer computer that was running at 1 GHz.)

And newer apps will utilize all the cores. This old laptop I'm using right now is a dual core 1.6 GHz system - it handles Freelancer with FRAPS running just fine, I average 40 FPS in game, and the only issue I have is lag, which is simply due to me being in the US.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.

[Switchback]

*pops in out of the blue*

If you are talking about the new AMD APUs (the A6 if I am not mistaken) don't be frightened by the clock speed. While yes, AMD has not had the best of track records, the APU series has been pretty solid (at least in my opinion). I run Sins of a Solar Empire, KSP, even DayZ (Arma 2:OA) perfectly on medium settings(get around 30FPS). The boost speed works perfectly well, and while i can't really comment on the graphics capability of the APUs the processing power is perfectly fine imo for light gaming and most tasks. (Note: If you do video encoding on a daily basis get an intel)

Don't ever assume the clock speed is the only thing to judge, unless comparing against two processors of the same generation and architecture. (Or else we would have people claiming Pentium 4s at 4ghz are better than i7s at 3.5)

My two cents.

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

[Reid]

Thanks guys. I went out and got the laptop earlier, and I'm extremely satisfied with it. Turns out it can run a handful of newer high end games. And yea, it's an AMD A6 Vision with Radeon graphics

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