|
Matt,
This is a good question, and something that I was quite
concerned with prior to receiving the IBM T42 2379DXU that I use
today.
I have Centrino 1.7 GHz processor with 1 GB of memory
and a 7200 RPM disk and I am very impressed with the speed that it performs
tasks.
I feel that it definitely out performs the Intel P4 2.0 GHz
I had previously.
I usually am running:
- A DB server (Oracle or Postgres)
- An IDE (Eclipse)
- ITunes
- Textpad
- IM (GAIM)
- Skype (Voice Chat)
- Outlook
- Word or Excel somewhere in the
background
- Firefox and IE
- Tomcat
With that configuration I can compile 194 source files in 3
seconds. I can't directly compare that to a P4 2.8 (which is what I heard it
would compare to) but I can say that given the benefits (portability good
battery life) I would buy the same laptop again (and we did for other
developers).
Hope that helps,
Abraham Fathman
Sorry, I don’t have any free gmail
accounts to offer :-0
Does anyone know how the Centrino
processor based laptops perform for typical java development work? i.e. running
and IDE, a DB server, ant (cranking away at unit tests), maybe a couple other
apps running.
If you have any links that compare
non-centrino to centrino performance that would help
too.
Thanks,
-Matt
This e-mail
transmission contains information that is intended to be confidential and
privileged. If you receive this e-mail and you are not a named addressee you are
hereby notified that you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or
disseminate this communication without the consent of the sender and that doing
so is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please reply to the message immediately by
informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please
delete and otherwise erase it and any attachments from your computer system.
Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. Thank you. Cintas
Corporation.
|