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Core Duo, IIRC, was a dual core processor during the "Core 2 Duo" area. I THINK the Core 2 Duos were hyper threaded.
My dad bought a Core 2 Quad Dell with a Q6600 in it back in 2007. Eventually the various mechanical components failed, but I was able to cobble together enough spare parts to build another rig off the chip for next to nothing. It's still running as a torrent machine and file server in his basement with a 4TB drive.
Core Duo, IIRC, was a dual core processor during the "Core 2 Duo" area. I THINK the Core 2 Duos were hyper threaded.
My dad bought a Core 2 Quad Dell with a Q6600 in it back in 2007. Eventually the various mechanical components failed, but I was able to cobble together enough spare parts to build another rig off the chip for next to nothing. It's still running as a torrent machine and file server in his basement with a 4TB drive.
I bought two new laptops in 2007.....a Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, and a Dual Core laptop (a Windows machine from a major manufacturer).
The only reason I will buy a new computer, is to be able to play and edit 4K video. So what are the abilities of i3, i5 and i7 to do that? I'm mainly looking at H-P desktops.
There's incomplete information about H-P computers on their website. For instance, they mention 5.1 surround sound, but say nothing about what kind of audio output port they have. Is it digital coaxial or optical? And what is the maximum video output resolution and frame rate their various models offer? My 12 year-old H-P media center computer is still going strong, with a quad-core and 2.2 GHz. But it won't play 4K or even 2K. It does do full HD at 60p. I installed Win10 32 bit a few years ago and added Start Menu X to take the place of the very bad startup page Win10 has.
The only reason I will buy a new computer, is to be able to play and edit 4K video. So what are the abilities of i3, i5 and i7 to do that? I'm mainly looking at H-P desktops.
There's incomplete information about H-P computers on their website. For instance, they mention 5.1 surround sound, but say nothing about what kind of audio output port they have. Is it digital coaxial or optical? And what is the maximum video output resolution and frame rate their various models offer? My 12 year-old H-P media center computer is still going strong, with a quad-core and 2.2 GHz. But it won't play 4K or even 2K. It does do full HD at 60p. I installed Win10 32 bit a few years ago and added Start Menu X to take the place of the very bad startup page Win10 has.
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You could buy a pretty cheap video card and you HP Media Center will be able to play HD. Processor actually matters very little.
My Media Center computer has an NVidia graphics card and will play full HD video at 60p quite well. It's 4K video that I need a new computer to be able to play and edit.
I had an i7 in a 2011 MacBook Pro, but in this 2017 MacBook Pro I also have an i7. They are not the same. When looking at specs, how do you know which is which without knowing the year?
It's deliberately ambiguous. They could come up with a more strait-forward naming convention, but they don't actually want people to know what they're buying.
The i3 i5 i7 is relative performance for a specific generation and series of processors, it no longer is the number of physical cores.
There used to be at least 3 lines: the desktop, low voltage, and ultra low voltage, but manufacturers never really told you if it is the LV and ULV, those were the thinner and ultra mobile, laptops, but for marketing, calling it i5 was better than calling its ultra light but slower.
As the die got smaller, the performance increased, so you get "lower speed" processors outperforming older "faster" processors.
My Media Center computer has an NVidia graphics card and will play full HD video at 60p quite well. It's 4K video that I need a new computer to be able to play and edit.
You don't need a new PC to PLAY 4K. Maybe to edit, But for playback the video card is 90% of the equation. It not more.
The only reason I will buy a new computer, is to be able to play and edit 4K video. So what are the abilities of i3, i5 and i7 to do that? I'm mainly looking at H-P desktops.
There's incomplete information about H-P computers on their website. For instance, they mention 5.1 surround sound, but say nothing about what kind of audio output port they have. Is it digital coaxial or optical? And what is the maximum video output resolution and frame rate their various models offer? My 12 year-old H-P media center computer is still going strong, with a quad-core and 2.2 GHz. But it won't play 4K or even 2K. It does do full HD at 60p. I installed Win10 32 bit a few years ago and added Start Menu X to take the place of the very bad startup page Win10 has.
You won't need an advanced graphics board to simply view 4K material off YouTube or something. The recent i5/i7 chips (8x00, 9x00) onboard graphics should be all you need. Any of the AMD Ryzen based computers will work as well.
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