Processors

Have you wondered what actually does the most work inside that box we call a computer? Ah yes the microprocessor or as we call it now just the processor. Without going into a lot of nerd talk, the processor commutates a lot of algorithms so we as the users don't have to. (Thank the Lord Above)

The processors that are out on the market now are far from the ones of yesteryear. When the operating system Windows XP was still in use, computers didn't need the processing speed as they do now. When this OS was in use consumers usually saw only a single processor that ran at 1.8GHZ, gigahertz. Now don't get me wrong that was fast at the time. (Heck I remember when I was younger that 1o0mhz, megahertz was blazing fast.) This was the era of the Intel Pentium 1 and the Pentium 2 chips.

Now with the OS, Windows Vista, we need just a little more processing speed. With more and more applications at hand we need more power, if you will, to aid us in our daily computing.

Their are many chips that are out there today, I am only going to focus on Intel not AMD. Some Intel chips that are out at this present time are: Pentium Daul Core, Pentium Quad Core, Celeron M, Centrino Dual Core. These processors are very different. Above I mentioned about the single processor at 1.8GHZ, here the dual core processors are just that dual processing. They can process the information twice the single processor speed and is one chip. The Pentium series runs hot and uses more power than a single core and runs fast even if you walk away from the computer. The Pentium Quad Core will run as if it was four processors stuck in one chip. Which in layman's terms it will run two times as fast at a dual core. That is a whopping four times as fast as processors of yesteryear. The Celeron M uses a lot of power and runs almost as slow as the processors of yesteryear. The chip that I recommend is the Centrino Dual Core because in a laptop it uses a lot less power and runs fast, but slows down if you aren't using it.

Wow! I know that sounds like nerd talk, but I hope this helps you all in your computer buying for the next three months. The reason I say three months is because the computers by then will be obsolete aka. a paper weight.