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Laptops. Are specs going backwards ?
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Originally posted by cojakI've decided to get a Mac for my next laptop... Let's see how it goes...
Can anyone recommend a Mac retailer, btw?
There's not much price variation. Apple control all the reseller prices with an iron fist.
Sieg Heil Jobs
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by OrangeHoppergcc.
Errmm, yes, GCC. But compiling what? ANSI C or C++ ?
C++ is a fully object-oriented (and overblown) language whereas C is one step up from assembler!
They share some basic syntax and lexical structure but only in the same sense that chalk and cheese are both solids.
A complex C++ program takes several 'shedloads' more computational power and working storage to compile than complex ANSI C one does.
You can't say 'compiling huge wads of C on this box is much faster than it was on my last box' and expect anybody to take any meaning from it. Can you?
Quantify!Last edited by bogeyman; 25 September 2006, 19:13.
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by TheMonkeyI just bought a Core 2 Duo box (2GHz) - well a Mac one. Scares the crap out of me how fast it is (compared to older machine compiling a huge chunk of C!). I reckon each core is around the same speed as a 3.06GHz P4.
The E6800 is unlocked - but costs about £700.
Just for the chip.
For a couple of hundred more you can build a PC around an E6600 (the chip I use) (£100 for motherboard, £200 for cpu, c£100 for hard drive(s), £150 for graphics card, £100 for case and £150 for memory). Monitors are dirt cheap too - I have a 19" widescreen that cost £119, and is a bargain for the price.
The E6600 is cheapest of the Core Duo's that ups the cache per core from 1 MBto 2MB. Runs at 2.4 Ghz (stock), can easily reach 3Ghz.
I returned a new AMD dual core AM2 setup to go Conroe - and its significantly faster.Vieze Oude ManComment
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Originally posted by bogeymanHuge chunks of C ?
Who, exactly, has trouble compiling 'huge chunks' of C any more?
Even a modest Intel or AMD processor, with a stingy amount of memory, would absolutelty piss through any amount of ANSI C code using a modern C compiler (from GNU, MS, Borland etc.).
What C compiler are you using that gives you this impression?
Now C++ is a different story, but compiling ANSI C should be as simple as.Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...Comment
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btw machine:
- core 2 duo 2ghz 4mb cache
- 1gb ddr2 667mhz
- ati x1600 128mb
- 160gb 7200rpm seagate sata disk
- 17" widescreen tft
- web cam + microphone
- mouse + keyboard
- wlan + bluetooth
- dvd+/-rw
- 3x usb2
- 1x firewire
- optical digital io
- built in speakers which are quite good
- remote control (!)
- os comparable to xp pro + media centre.
- xcode (eqiv to visual studio)
- 2y warranty on entire system no pissing around rma'ing components)
- takes up as much room as a 18" TFT does
- decent office suite .... £55.
£799 from john lewis - i just walked in and bought it on the way home (no dell 50 quid delivery charge etc).
You can't really get that for the same money in PC land.Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...Comment
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