What are the advantages of dual core processors?

Question

Is it necessarily better to get something dual core in a laptop than without?

Answer 1

If you want a faster computer, then go dual core. I don't think they're NECESSARY. But they sure are better than single core!

Answer 2

The dual core concept was designed to refine the hyperthreading process. Rather then mingling data at the core it simply seperatly channels it, this is rather convenient when you need to perform multiple tasks and yes there is a true advantage to this. Obviously my use may be more advanced then yours (I encode videos and perform various other tasks while doing this) but almost anything that is CPU intensive can benefit from the way the dual cores consolodate data. The last guy just before me is also only hald correct, th eold computer motherboards that supporting multiple chips could only utilize the power from each chip to a given set of processes, the newer dual core chips can utilize both cores with some supporting applications and you can see significant performance differences.

Answer 3

A dual core processor is a single processor running at the same Ghz as some single core processors, just processing exactly 2x as much at 1 time.

Answer 4

Yes, it is 2007, and multicores have become energy effecient, powerful, and cheap enough to be useful in laptops. Stick to Pentium Dual Cores and Core 2 Duos and you can't go wrong. I would advise you to stay away from AMD's mobile dual cores because of energy consumption even if it means paying a little more.

Answer 5

Of course it's necessary because when you have the dual core, your PC will run faster. Twice/thrice and so on and so forth the performance of a single core.

Answer 6

A dual core processor is exactly what it sounds like. It is two processor cores on one die essentially like having a dual processor system in one processor.

Answer 7

When you have a dual core processor, you can process information twice as fast. So, yes its better to have a Core 2 Duo processor than a single core processor.

Answer 8

dual core is the lastest technology. it does the task much fastter than a single core like a celeron, penitum 4 etcc. get a core 2 dua or a amd ahtlon x2 dual core since they are the same prices than the sigle core laptops. you wont regret it. slowly by slowly software / games that are being released are supporting dual core processsors

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-dual-core-technology.htm

Answer 9

Depends on the price difference. Systems with multiple CPU's are noticably more responsive than systems with only one. This is even more noticable when you multitask. But even if you are not a power user, Windows is running multiple processes all the time, just look at your task manager.

Answer 10

it will be faster if you have more than 1 application running at a time. if you just do 1 thing at a time like chek mail than it is just as good as a single core