On Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 09:17:31PM -0600, Arthur Moore wrote: > I'm looking at getting a new laptop for audio production (current > system is pentium IIIM 1.3Ghz, 512 M memory, 5200 RPM hard drive, > Presonus Firepod running with FreeBob , not really cutting it). I'm > wondering what people's opinions about the Intel dual core vs. an > AMD64 bit processor, both with 2GB of memory, and a 100GB 7200 RPM > hard drive. From my limited understanding the dual core is like a dual > processor (maybe?) running in parallel. It seems to me that the dual > core would be better than the AMD64 for audio production. they arent mutually exclusive. there are dual-core AMD64 chips, in mobile and desktop versions (mainly the voltage is different), ad there arr dual-core Core2Duo chips, which are intel's version of amd64. generally the intel chipsets have much better linux drivers, for the time being. especially wrt video, wireless, etc > > Art >
