Tech help for processors

[hadmatter]

well,., i have a laptop with a 1.4g hrz processor( intel celeron M). Would this run a large chunk of software such as ptc desktop or solidworks(engineeri ng design software)? or would it slow as a funeral after it? would i be better off upgrading the processor to 3g hrz, is this cheap and is it easy to do?


Thanks a million, really appreciate any help.

[i_didnt_do_nawtin]

It's not going to be lightning quick but it shouldn't crawl either, it depends on how much RAM you have.

It may be cheaper/better investment just to buy a new PC.

[hadmatter]

It's not going to be lightning quick but it shouldn't crawl either, it depends on how much RAM you have.

It may be cheaper/better investment just to buy a new PC.

40GB ????

[Azrael]

well,., i have a laptop with a 1.4g hrz processor( intel celeron M). Would this run a large chunk of software such as ptc desktop or solidworks(engineeri ng design software)? or would it slow as a funeral after it? would i be better off upgrading the processor to 3g hrz, is this cheap and is it easy to do?


Thanks a million, really appreciate any help.

Neither cheap nor easy.

[Azrael]

40GB ????

That's ROM buddy....

It's gonna be 256 or 512.MB

[hadmatter]

Neither cheap nor easy.
Thanks, i kind of regret not buying one now instead of a laptop.Thinkin of this

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_380?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn

[Azrael]

Thanks, i kind of regret not buying one now instead of a laptop.Thinkin of this

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_380?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_380?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn)


DON'T BUY DELLS....

HP baby.... all the way.

[St_Cyrill_of_Tyrrenhaes]

well,., i have a laptop with a 1.4g hrz processor( intel celeron M). Would this run a large chunk of software such as ptc desktop or solidworks(engineeri ng design software)? or would it slow as a funeral after it? would i be better off upgrading the processor to 3g hrz, is this cheap and is it easy to do?


Thanks a million, really appreciate any help.

Celerons form the extreme low end of Intel's processor lineup. I'm unfamiliar with the software you're talking about but if it's mathematically-intensive a Celeron will crawl. Solidworks have a list of minimum system requirements (http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/SystemRequirements.h tml) that seem to indicate you should have 1GB of RAM and a 3D card in order to run it properly.

Upgrading processors or graphics cards on a laptop is highly nontrivial and, in many cases, impossible. You might be better off investing in a new laptop in order to run this software.

[ubernerd]

That's ROM buddy....

Nope. Tis yer hard disk space. The term "memory" usually refers to RAM which is the amount of memory space applications have to run in, as opposed to a store of Read / Write memory used for storing data - thats yer 40GB.

ROM on the other hand is like a CD you cant write to or the memory on ye olde digital watch.
In other words, memory you cant overwrite. You dont need to know or worry about this.

It's gonna be 256 or 512.MB

Actually it could be anything from 128mb to 2GB realistically if you have a 40GB hard drive. Prob one of the two Azrael has mentioned above however.


Yours sincerely,
P. O'Indexter.


edit >> You should be able to get your RAM up as far as 2GB in a laptop (2 * 1gb chips).
I'm sure you could probably get external USB2 Graphics Cards too ? Someone else on this list might be able to help you with that. Native graphics and audio cards on laptops are rarely any good.

[thread_killer]

also, you can't use the clock speed to compare processors.

looking at a 1.4 GHz celeron and a 3.0 GHz p4, you can't compare them using this 'number'.

a nice (linux) way of comparing processor speed is with bogomips or bogus millions of instructions per second, or meaningless information per second.


cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep bogo
bogomips : 5596.05

[hadmatter]

well, OK. just to clarify, If it runs as slow as shit, is it the processor thats the problem? And any recomendations for a good processor for ''mathematically-intensive'' software?
Thanks.

[wingnut]

Laptop wise your looking at a centrino 2.2Ghz or a Turion 2GHz. The Acer Aspire 1694 is a good bet:

€1,679.21 Inc Vat
2.0 Ghz Centrino
256MB Radeon X700
100 GB HDD
Dual Layer Multi DVDRW
All the usual bells and whistes wireless, bluetooth etc and a proper line-in jack which no laptop seem to have any more (line-in/mic-in combined crap)

Acer Advanatge packet gives you 3 year warranty and accidental damage for €139 - a fraction of the cost other manu. charge!

[St_Cyrill_of_Tyrrenhaes]

Laptop wise your looking at a centrino 2.2Ghz or a Turion 2GHz.

Actually, I'd stay away from the Turion. Several reviews from Tom's Hardware and Anandtech suggest that they run extremely hot and have less than optimal power requirements.