Lost question and answer

So is it any advantage to the home user to have dual core, quad core or
more cores or will a single core be sufficient.
The reason I ask is my laptop is a dual core and my desktop is a single
core and faster than the laptop.


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Blattus Slafaly ? 3 7/8

""Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 "" wrote...
> So is it any advantage to the home user to have dual core, quad core or more
> cores or will a single core be sufficient.
> The reason I ask is my laptop is a dual core and my desktop is a single core
> and faster than the laptop.

If all other parameters are equal, the dual core will be measurably faster than
the single core in CPU intensive applications, mainly because background tasks
can use the other core.

However, the laptop may have other hardware that is slower than the desktop,
including:
CPU clock speed
CPU architecture
CPU cache
Front Side Bus speed
Hard Drive I/O
Graphics adapter
Network adapter

Any of these can become the bottleneck, depending on the application.