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<blockquote data-quote="Derek McNelly" data-source="post: 588658" data-attributes="member: 47675"><p>Okay, nevermind. I just read up on it and the gist of what the dual core does is it splits up the processes evenly between the two cores.</p><p></p><p>The overall performance is somewhere around 1.6 times the listed clock speed, so a 2GHz Dual Core runs like a 3.2 GHz single core.</p><p></p><p>One of the reasons for the multiple cores is because it's getting harder to fit all the transistors onto a chip, and as such, it's easier to just make multiple cores that work together on a single die.</p><p></p><p>The best way to keep your Mac running fast is to add more RAM if you can, and if you can't, look and see what processes are running in the background and try and kill some of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Derek McNelly, post: 588658, member: 47675"] Okay, nevermind. I just read up on it and the gist of what the dual core does is it splits up the processes evenly between the two cores. The overall performance is somewhere around 1.6 times the listed clock speed, so a 2GHz Dual Core runs like a 3.2 GHz single core. One of the reasons for the multiple cores is because it's getting harder to fit all the transistors onto a chip, and as such, it's easier to just make multiple cores that work together on a single die. The best way to keep your Mac running fast is to add more RAM if you can, and if you can't, look and see what processes are running in the background and try and kill some of them. [/QUOTE]
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