Comments on: Samsung R60 Review: A Laptop For The Home And Office.

By: Arutha

Arutha — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:47:23 +0000

Fair point but if you read the link below it may help enlighten you.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=130

While XP Home does not support Dual cores altogether, later versions of XP Pro and Vista do support Dual Cores, although it will not use 100% of the second CPU under stressful times it will use the second core to help relieve the strain.

Now with more and more games comming out that support Dual cores as well as software such as 3D packages. Its only a matter of time before items use Dual cores all the time.

By: Raven Lee

Raven Lee — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:58:33 +0000

“The Samsung R60 comes with the everyday essentials and includes an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, which runs at a nice 1.8Ghz. Now you might think that in this day and age it is rather slow for a processor, but with it being a Core 2 Duo this means that it runs at the speed of two processors, so in fact this laptop is actually running at 3.6Ghz.”

I’m surprised that someone that is running a technology review website is this uninformed. Dual processors or dual cores does not mean you are running at the combined speed of both cores or processors. Even factoring out overhead and factoring in perfect multithreaded performance, that would be impossible. Not only are most operating systems not 64 bit, most operating systems can’t make use of multiple cores. In addition, most programs aren’t written to make use of multiple cores or processors. So for multiple processors or cores to be utilized to their fullest, you’d need a 64 bit operating system with multithread support, in addition to running a multi threaded program.

A dual core 2 Ghz system is a 2 Ghz system for most programs and applications. The second processor will never get used or used very seldom.

By: Simon Mackness-Pettit

Simon Mackness-Pettit — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:51:36 +0000

It will prob have a decent rating at 3D Multimedia Design work as well.

By: Gaj

Gaj — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:08:52 +0000

This laptop seems to be priced at around £450 and looks like a pretty good all rounder, unless you need something very portable or your a hard gamer it looks as though it will do the job. For somebody who would want to run juicy .net web development tools it would be ideal for me.