i'm going to buy a new lap top today. i know and understand ram and hard drive but processors seem to confuse me!!!

when i brought my last laptop 4 years ago the speed was 2.8ghz. nowadays processors have terms and jargon which i dont understand!! i'm very interested in this one http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0877980268.120203295 0@@@@&BV_EngineID=cceeadedemfefdgcflgceggdhhmdgmh.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=156069&category_oid=

but it comes with 2ghz - so i presume thats slower and mine is powerful/faster after all these years?!?!?!?!?!?

also if you can recommened another laptop like a sony or toshiba that would be appreciated!!:thumbsup:

The important point of the laptop you linked to is that it's a core2duo, which means it actually has two processor cores both running at 2Ghz. So it will be faster than your current one in general.

OIC, so bloody obvious!!!!! Its 4ghz!!! lol

cheers:thumbsup:

Well, that wouldn't make it 4.0 GHz, it simply means that you can have 2 simultaneous tasks running at the same time because there are two processors.

The big differences between processors over the last few years has been that they have been improving aspects of the chips other than the clock speed. I think it was pretty much agreed a couple of years ago that clock speeds on a computer weren't going to improve, so Intel and AMD started looking at how the chips communicate and the L1, L2 Cache sizes.

To put it in English, a 2.0GHz Pentium 4 Processor would be slower than a 2.0GHz Centrino (Single Processor).

It basically means that what you used to look at to determine which processor was better is pretty much void, making it all more complicated for consumers :)