Watermonkey

I'm not a vegamite sandwich, but I sure wish all the topics at this forum were as intersting as this one. It's sure got a lot of intelligent debate going on. I like that. i thnk we need more of posts like this one at the trap. I don't see how you can really argue with a scientific study, I guess you should be able to duplicate the study with the expectation of getting the same results. I'll get right on that and we'll pick up where we left off in about twenty years. Yeah -right! Some of you should stop pretending you know more than the experts.It kinda looks like some posters have been picking on vbriton because she's not a meat eater like they are. I looked at her posts and she never got emotional or angry with the some of the insulting posts aimed at her. And then she even agreed with some of the people who disagreed or insulted her. Some of the people who pretend to be smart just come out looking like bullies trying to pick on one person who has a differnt opinion. Maybe they were jelous that they aren't getting as much attention at their posts? Questions. Questions that need answers...

The kind of people who really irk me are cowards. They won't stand up on their own, but as soon as they have a group of goons behind them, they suddenly have all the guts in the world. I like it when people are able to stand up for what they believe in all by themselves.

I drove with my laptop up and running constantly for my last job, testing cellular networks. I had to buy an outboard network card because my company was too cheap to buy a decent laptop with built-in wireless. I bought another card for my personal computer that is old enough that built-in 802.11b/g/n wasn't common. Both cards are Belkins. One is "g 54 MB/s" and the other is "pre-n 108 MB/s". I found that I could attach to networks much farther away with the MIMO pre-n card than I can with the "g" card. I have no idea if I could get better range with internal vs external on my Mac or my wife's Sony, but it's really not a big deal to have the PCMCIA card sticking out of your computer. I like the software for the MIMO card better too. Whatever works...

I believe that computer he was talking about, the G5 Quad, has four cores each running at 2.5 GHz which, added up, would make 10 GHz. While it's true that there could, if all processors were maxxed out at the same time (take off your clothes, throw some water on it and you'll have a steam sauna ) you'd have 10 GHz worth of clock cycles under the hood, you wouldn't see the benifit that one theoretical 10 GHz chip would produce. It's kinda like having a VW Touareg TDI V10. The V10, like several engines built by the VW Auto Group, is actually two engines mated to the crankshaft. In Europe and other parts of the world you can buy a Touareg with a 2.5L inline 5 TDI (diesel). The numbers don't add up, though. Even though the 5L, 10 cylinder engine is two 2.5L inlines mated to one crank, the torque and horsepower isn't twice that put out by the single 2.5L engine. There's quite a bit of loss incurred. Back to the chip: Because of numerous factors such as front end bus speeds, software ineffencies, heat loss, etc., there's not nearly the gain to be had with multiple core processors compared with a single core. However with lower clock speeds, there's more power to be had without incurring the heat penalties and it's the least expensive way to increase performance since Intel is nearly at the max engineering this processor already. Next up, 65n processors.

I've got a new 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo 17" MBP with 2 GB of RAM and it screams. I love the fact that I don't have to wait long at all for it to boot up, not that I have to boot it very often, and it is very good at running multiple tasks at once. The previous poster is right about two cores or CPUs. There are two distinct CPUs in this laptop. They share 4 MB of cache memory, otherwise they're separate in everything they do. Does that mean I can think of my computer as a 4.66 MHz machine? Absolutely... NO! First, clock speed doesn't mean as much today as it used to with Intel. It's kinda like comparing Intels Pentiums to IBM's PowerPC chips (used in PS3, Xbox, and the fastest supercomputer in America): They have distinctly different architectures and go about doing things in different ways. The PowerPC is much more efficient than a Pentuim thus it could accomplish the same task in fewer clock cycles. Today's newest Intel processors are the same way which is why they're able to stuff dual procs into a tiny laptop enclosure without melting things or starting fires. The chips don't need to run faster, they just need to do things more efficiently and one way is to write software that can take advantage of that second, third, forth etc. CPU so that it spreads itself out if the machine has multiple CPUs on board. That second CPU is no good if the software doesn't use it. I think most software today takes advantage of multiple CPUs so it's not too much of an issue anymore. I don't believe you can buy any Mac now that doesn't have at least two CPUs on board. Soon, they'll release the eight core MacPro workstation.

A neighbor of mine did it so he can edit video more easily in his "mobile office". I'm not sure why he didn't just get a laptop, but maybe at the time the laptops weren't powerful enough. He installed a Mac mini and added a car stereo with a screen like what you can find at any car audio store. It wasn't much to do I don't think, if you're interested, I could ask him for more details.

Hello all! This is my very first post so I'll make it here. I've got three computers, all laptops, one is owned by my former employer, hopefully my future employer if they ever get some work around here. Company laptop:Dell Latitude D510 with Celeron M 1400 MHzRunning Windoz XP 2002, SP2248 MB RAMBOINC CPU benchmarks: 1182 floating point MIPS (Whetstone)2447 integer MIPS (Dhrystone)Personal laptop 1:Toshiba Satellite with Celeron 1100 MHzRunning Windoz XP 2002, SP2240 MB RAMbenchmarks: unknownPersonal laptop 2:Apple MacBook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHZRunning OS 10.4.82 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAMBOINC CPU benchmarks:1877 floating point MIPS (Whetstone)4959 integer MIPS (Dhrystone)Graphics card: ATI Radion X1600 256 MB VRAM