2GB RAM worth it for this processor?

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Renegade

Wearer of Army Boots

• Jun 3, 2006

• #1

I'm thinking of getting a new laptop, a 1.83ghz intel core duo, ati mobility radeon x1400.
Is that sort of processor going to be a cap on performance even with 2GB of RAM?

 

Clements

Active member

Moderator

• Jun 3, 2006

• #2

Core Duo is a very fast processor and so 2GB would not be overkill for it.

 

t0rek

Wilson's Friend

• Jun 3, 2006

• #3

Core Duo is the best processor available for laptops right now, 1 Gb of Ram will be enought, but more RAM is always welcome. Core 2 Duo processors will come in laptop and desktop presentations, and they will be even better (Core 2 Duo for desktop will surpass AMD64)

 

Flash

Technomage

• Jun 3, 2006

• #4

Clements said:

Core Duo is a very fast processor and so 2GB would not be overkill for it.

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For photoshop or video editing stuff 2Gb will be the minimum. That's why i had 2Gb in my old Celeron-900 machine.

 

Doomulation

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• Jun 4, 2006

• #5

t0rek said:

Core 2 Duo processors will come in laptop and desktop presentations, and they will be even better (Core 2 Duo for desktop will surpass AMD64)

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Oh? I've never heard of that. Only Intel's next-gen processor, Conroe or what it was called?

 

Clements

Active member

Moderator

• Jun 4, 2006

• #6

Conroe is the codename for the desktop variant of the Core 2 Duo.

 

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TerraPhantm

New member

• Jun 4, 2006

• #7

Merom, is pretty much a mobile Conroe. (Kind of like how Turion64s are to Athlon64s)