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]

Originally Posted by 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.

40GB ????

[Azrael]

Originally Posted by 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.

Neither cheap nor easy.

[Azrael]

Originally Posted by hadmatter

40GB ????

That's ROM buddy....

It's gonna be 256 or 512.MB

[hadmatter]

Originally Posted by Azrael

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/pr...n&s=dhs&~ck=mn

[Azrael]

Originally Posted by hadmatter

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

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...n&s=dhs&~ck=mn

DON'T BUY DELLS....

HP baby.... all the way.

[St_Cyrill_of_Tyrrenhaes]

Originally Posted by 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.

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 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]

Originally Posted by Azrael

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.

Originally Posted by Azrael

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