Laptop Suggestions
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Hi, I'm looking to get a laptop to do some MFC, C++ Windows programming. Looking to get a 14" widescreen. Does anyone have any good suggestions? Is AMD64 ok, and can I port it to a Intel-based system later?:-D
skyll wrote:
Is AMD64 ok, and can I port it to a Intel-based system later?
AMD is identicle operation as Intel. Even down the SSE/SSE2/SSE3 instruction sets. There are different optimizations for each if you want to improve performance, otherwise everything still works. Work buys only Intel, from XEON to Centrino, I buy AMD at home, I even have the new X2 chip, all my software runs just as well on my home system as work, especially now that I have the X2 chip since my software has always been multi-threaded, since 1993. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Hi, I'm looking to get a laptop to do some MFC, C++ Windows programming. Looking to get a 14" widescreen. Does anyone have any good suggestions? Is AMD64 ok, and can I port it to a Intel-based system later?:-D
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would you get a AMD64 or a intel dual core that's 32-bit. and what's your favorite laptop to code on.
I would get a AMD64 in case you want to code for 64 bit processors in the future. At least then, you have the option to. A dual core system from intel would only benefit you if you are building/using multi-threaded applications.
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I would get a AMD64 in case you want to code for 64 bit processors in the future. At least then, you have the option to. A dual core system from intel would only benefit you if you are building/using multi-threaded applications.
You'll see modest gains even if your app is single threaded. If your background processes are consuming 5% of your cpu in a single core proc your main app only has 95% of your cpu time available, in a dualcore setup it can have 100% of a single core. Unless you're buying bleeding edge hardware though unless your background load is heavy you'd get better bang for the buck with a single core than an equivilantly price dualcore.