i7 vs. t9300 cpu - does anyone really notice a difference?

[ajkula66]

I understand that may not be the most fair test, but aside from the point: The Pentium 4 may be a hot-running, beefy, old processor from 2005. But using the D900T with the Pentium 4 and my i7 Toshiba laptop from the now, for web browsing, flash gaming, slideshows, viewing video, typing up documents, checking email, etc., yields really no difference at all. The D900T also has a 1920x1200 screen, runs Windows 7 and has Aero on.

Very nicely put.

Not to mention the fact that D900T is a very-well-built machine no matter where one went to school. I worked on a couple of those a long time ago - when they were all the rage - and was pretty impressed overall.

As I always say to my customers, current and potential: there is no doubt that there are many people who need 32GB RAM in their laptops. However, the vast majority doesn't, and likely won't for the foreseeable future.

[billyj]

CPU usage: 11.83%; processes: 77;

All of this at 1200MHz...1197 if you want to be precise.

I've got easily over 50 browser tabs open at the moment. Can count them if you'd like me to.

My point stands: there's absolutely no reason to have 20% CPU usage in idle state.

I have to say, I was a bit surprised by the result myself.

I put a another disk with a vanilla install of Wn7 x64 into the T61. Compared Task Manager and Process Explorer side by side.
Task Manager was showing 0-2%, while Process Explorer around 40%. I see the exact same difference on my current install of Win7 x64 in the T61. Then I put the vanilla install in an X61 tablet, and there Task Manager was showing 0-2%, Process Explorer around 6%.

So...the difference is simply too large on the T61. That, and some inconsistencies I saw in the way CPU % was accounted to individual processes make me think that there is an issue with CPU % accounting in ProcExp. Somehow my T61 must be triggrering it, there is nothing like it on the X61 with the same exact Win7 install, nor did I see anything like it on the T430s.