I got a petium4 2.8 it just gets to hot and I would take a dual core, also centrino so it dont get that hot and longer battery life.

Ohh and welcome to webmasterworld

Hi,
Thanks for ur reply, So any difference in their speed?

~Maryam

Take a look at how fast the Front Side Bus is on the Dual Core CPU's, then compare it to the P4 2.6 GHZ. No matter how fast your CPU, the bottleneck is going to happen in your FSB because that's where your CPU transers information to the rest of the system and back.

If I'm not mistaken, the new dual core systems run at around 800mhz FSB compared to around 400-600mhz commonly seen on Pentium 4 systems.

PC World just did a piece about some latest dual core systems and dual core seems to be the way to go. As the previous poster mentioned, they also run cooler and use less energy, which is very important and shouldn't be dismissed.

for most webwork, I would have thought that you would not notice any difference,

unless you can tell the diff between,, 10 micro-secs an 50 micro-secs

get the cheaper one, an spend the saved money on something really useful like,,, extra domainnames

For any new machines you buy now keep in mind the Vista hardware requirements [microsoft.com] so you can upgrade the OS if you want sometime down the road.

Most of today's PCs are at least Vista Capable if the graphics handles DirectX 9. It takes a bit more to get all the bells & whistles of Vista Premium Ready.

would you really upgrade to vista, and why?

martinibuster - has a good point, the bus runs low on pentuim 4 motherboards and yes the dualcore runs on 800

We really shouldn't turn this into a discussion on whether or not to upgrade to Vista. As there are a few Windows users around here :-), it's just something to be aware of if you're buying new hardware at this time.

very funny, :-)

I am a windows user, but I am still on windows 2000 not because I don't like or apprciate XP, but because I find win2000 remarkably good, tho xp is even better, and my limited cash is beig relentlessly swallowed by this internet business bug,

Anyways, I've been listening to future proofing arguments for quite a while an always, I find the time you wanna upgrade, your

Monitors is outta date

video card is a joke

haven't got the latest usb10.0 ports

motherboard is starting to switch off the machine unexpectedly

hard disk is starting to give strange sounds, resulting in cold sweats

in short, in 3 years, if you gonna use the machine as hard as I do, then, you'll be needing a newish one every 3 years

You are in the webbie business aren't you?

Well, I say leave the fastest machine to the server operators who really need erm, an spend your cash more usefully,

Mind you , if have the fastest super duperest laptop around lights your fire, then go read PC world magazine benchmarking tests

I'm not rich at all, but I buy a new one each year. I'm about to get the Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz. Currently using P4 HT 3.2Ghz.

If you do development, you're time is expensive. Count the time elapsed after you press F5, or whatever your compiler/IDE function key equivalent is to run/debug.
That's a lot of time expended, the less the better.