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Guys, I need your opinion.
I have this Mac Lion;
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 3 GB
But when I test the hard disk drive speed (320Gig WD Scorpio Blue), the result never get more than this http://i.imgur.com/hBFD6.png
Is it normal?
@NanoG6
Probably it is, consider is a laptop hard drive, plus being a 5400RPM drive.
@yomero
Ya may be. I was just curious with my drive speed because @KuJoe mention about his "Western Digital Caviar 80GB SATA (80MB/s write speeds)" earlier
It depends of several factors. At this time I remember these:
@NanoG6 Mine is a 3.5" 7200RPM drive, sorry for any confusion.
@NanoG6 that sounds about right for a Scorpio Blue. Western Digital Black drives are much faster
I run a Pentium 4 @ 3 Ghz. Runs all the latest games and everything great!
..............back in 2006! I cannot imagine using that ancient CPU no more. Not only is it a huge power hog, but it absolutely sucks in performance these days.....heck even my netbook's ATOM processor destroys this thing......
That's funny... because I can run Skyrim on my P4 with no issues.
+1 I have no issues with this computer, Currently.
What the hell is a P4 doing in a tower like that? My old destop had a P4 and my new one has an AMD a3600 APU Quad core 2.40ghz, 4GB DDR3 ram, and 1TB HDD all costed $350.00
I don't have a clue who would put a Pentium 4 in a tower like this, It was kind of a "What Proccessor is it" situation as I seen it on GumTree and the owner didn't have any idea about computers so only listed the proccessor speed, I was hoping for a Dual Core but I looked at the system info when I got there to check it out and it was a Pentium 4.
I needed a new PC desperately as one more day of seeing that Ugly Ubuntu Interface and I would of jumped out of my window. It runs like a dream and I have no complaints so far.
@Jacob
And so the garbage Unity interface claims another victim... If I wanted a netbook optimized GUI I'd buy a netbook.
I have a celeron dual core as home server (very powerful)... without case tower XDDDD
@yomero I am using my asus eee 900 netbook, celeron single core 900mhz, 512mb ram runs great as a Debian server with OpenPanel for me.
@Jeffrey
I am thinking about using my netbook for the same (Atom N270), but sometimes I still carry it out of home u_u
@yomero I only bring my Netbook out of the house when I go on vacation which is about twice a year. It's too slow for Adobe Flash.
Even the atoms are slow for Flash ¬_¬
use AMD C or E series.. atom sucks.. :P
That's why the better netbooks have GPUs dedicated to video. 720p playback on YouTube puts my Atom at less than 20%. I
Broadcom's Crystal HD chip.
@Daniel agreed, most sets like that go out of country or at the market