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Sir Travis D said:
Quad core processors provide a substantial amount of performance increase over a core2duo notebook, and some people can take the reduced battery life for performance.
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Actually they don't because most applications and operating systems don't thread resources out to 4 cores yet. It is too new to fully take advantage of, and if that were true then you would see a lot of Core2Quad processors in laptops, but you don't.
 
tlarkin said:
Actually they don't because most applications and operating systems don't thread resources out to 4 cores yet. It is too new to fully take advantage of, and if that were true then you would see a lot of Core2Quad processors in laptops, but you don't.
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Mainly because there are no mobile quad core processors (that I'm aware of), the only ones you do see are desktop models.
 
[-0MEGA-];1015139 said:
Mainly because there are no mobile quad core processors (that I'm aware of), the only ones you do see are desktop models.
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Because they generate too much heat and consume too much power LOL....
 
tlarkin said:
Because they generate too much heat and consume too much power LOL....
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Very true, I can't imagine the battery life of a 17" laptop with a desktop version quad-core processor, dual 8800M GTX's in SLI, dual hard drives in RAID, etc...
 
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