{"id":579,"date":"2006-07-17T08:16:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T15:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/7f9a1aaa95696a80bb8e791809736a39"},"modified":"2006-07-17T08:16:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T15:16:37","slug":"dual-cpu-vs-dual-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Dual CPU vs Dual Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dual Core is a hot topic at the moment, and from personal experience (my iMac Core Duo, and a MacBook Pro currently on its way) it works very well. It is not so much the power of the CPU as the difference it gives in responsiveness  - I don't get any of the freezes or pauses that I used to get when using my iMac Intel Core Duo. <\/p>\n<p>I'm no stranger to multi-CPU systems, my first home PC (as opposed to the work units I'd been provided with) was a dual CPU unit. And of course my Niagara cased T1000 and T2000 units take the multi-core model to the extreme. <\/p>\n<p>With the advent of dual-core, you have to wonder whether there is a difference between dual-core and dual-CPU. Is one faster than the other? Dual-CPU theoretically have more bandwidth available to each CPU, but the dual-core model allows information to be shared more effectively between the two cores because there is less distance between the two cores.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=13xbb9\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=13xbb9\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/2387159\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dual Core is a hot topic at the moment, and from personal experience (my iMac Core Duo, and a MacBook Pro currently on its way) it works very well. It is not so much the power of the CPU as the difference it gives in responsiveness  &#8211; I don&#8217;t get any of the freezes or pauses that I used to get when using my iMac Intel Core Duo. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no stranger to multi-CPU systems, my first home PC (as opposed to the work units I&#8217;d been provided with) was a dual CPU unit. And of course my Niagara cased T1000 and T2000 units take the multi-core model to the extreme. <\/p>\n<p>With the advent of dual-core, you have to wonder whether there is a difference between dual-core and dual-CPU. Is one faster than the other? Dual-CPU theoretically have more bandwidth available to each CPU, but the dual-core model allows information to be shared more effectively between the two cores because there is less distance between the two cores.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=13xbb9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=13xbb9\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/2387159\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}