Compaq 1750 - Windows XP Home

[AAH]

Intel Pentium D 820
Dual Core Processor
Clock Speed 2.8 GHz

I intend to buy a new computer with WindowsXP Home Edition.

Any advice would be highly appreciated particularly about dual core
processor?
Are they better for WinXP than normal
processor?
I am bit confused about processor type.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Visit http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentium_D/index.htm
and watch the "Dual-Core Demo".

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Intel Pentium D 820
| Dual Core Processor
| Clock Speed 2.8 GHz
|
| I intend to buy a new computer with WindowsXP Home Edition.
|
| Any advice would be highly appreciated particularly about dual core
| processor?
| Are they better for WinXP than normal
| processor?
| I am bit confused about processor type.

 

[Beck]

Visit http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentium_D/index.htm
and watch the "Dual-Core Demo".

Are you a bot?

 

[Guest]

Are you a bot?

Carey Frish is a specialist in Copy & Paste on these newsgroups. He got his
MVP status (Most Valuable Perv) for his such services and for forcing people
to buy a full version of Microsoft Operating system when a generic OEM would
just do fine.

His knowledge is very much limited. He works as a doorman for one of the
hotels.

 

[Beck]

Carey Frish is a specialist in Copy & Paste on these newsgroups. He
got his MVP status (Most Valuable Perv) for his such services and for
forcing people to buy a full version of Microsoft Operating system
when a generic OEM would just do fine.

His knowledge is very much limited. He works as a doorman for one of
the hotels.

Does copy and pasting links matter if the links have the answer? While I
disagree with him on the whole OEM issue in another thread, I think alot of
the bashing of him is unwarranted. Like calling him a perv for example?

 

[Travis King]

I've felt that any dual-core CPU that I've used didn't feel any faster than
my Athlon XP when getting around XP, but for starting up, shutting down, and
other programs that you use, it makes a big difference. (That would even
include WMP, etc.) I'm just saying the difference when using and navigating
through explorer for example is minimal. The next Windows is probably
coming out at the beginning of next year, so make sure you have a computer
that will run it. A good video card will be more important in the next
Windows (Windows Vista) than they have in the past. You need a decent video
card for the best appearance in Vista.

For advice, make sure you look in the following for your computer:
Dual-core is ideal for Windows Vista, so get one
512MB of RAM is the MINIMUM you should have for Vista, 1GB (1024MB) is
recommended, and I think 1.5GB of RAM or higher is ideal.
*If* the computer you get doesn't come with a video card (and comes with an
integrated graphics) make sure it has at least an AGP slot or PCI-Express
x16 slot available or has at a minimum 1GB of RAM.
I would recommend an 80GB hard drive as a minimum
Make sure you have at least a DVD drive

Now if you could care less about Windows Vista, don't bother nor worry about
it. Most computer systems that come with a dual-core processor would
probably work okay with Vista, anyway.