What is "low spec" for you?

[Asmo Koskinen]

Clinton Morse kirjoitti:
> Just curious what opinions or experience from other users of Ubuntu Studio 
> have to say on the tradeoff of core count versus chip speed.
>   
I have no opinion, but this make me wondering  - when we can expect 
value for buying a quad-core processor. And you know  - there is 
anything else to buy in few years.

"For example, most current (as of 2006) PC games will run faster on a 3 
GHz single-core processor than on a 2GHz dual-core processor (of the 
same core architecture),[citation needed] despite the dual-core 
theoretically having more processing power, because they are incapable 
of efficiently using more than one core at a time."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_(computing)#Disadvantages

But something is happening there...

""c't has tested ThreadWeaver on an experimental 4 core system with 
hyperthreading, and it scales very nicely with the CPU power. Loading 56 
4MBit images files took a little over 2 seconds. I guess that is fast."

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2714

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.