Just got an IBM M50 with the 3Ghz HT chip, and HOLY SHIT, what a difference it makes. I've never had a PC that multi-tasks like this one. now all i gotta do is fill it up with RAM
Hyperthreading is good for sure.. 11:27:44 up 22 days, 11:09, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 1.47, 1.34 181 processes: 180 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 3.0% user 1.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 94.0% idle CPU1 states: 5.0% user 2.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 91.0% idle CPU2 states: 1.0% user 0.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 97.0% idle CPU3 states: 1.0% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 98.0% idle CPU4 states: 2.0% user 0.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 96.0% idle CPU5 states: 0.0% user 0.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 99.0% idle CPU6 states: 2.0% user 0.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 96.0% idle CPU7 states: 0.0% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 100.0% idle Mem: 3615644k av, 3605056k used, 10588k free, 0k shrd, 87364k buff 2704096k actv, 680k in_d, 242492k in_c Swap: 2096472k av, 376224k used, 1720248k free 2175812k cached