Quote Originally Posted by skizzot View Post


I just wanted to say, your an idiot. DUO is a brand name, by Intel. DUOs are dual-core. I dont know who told you DUO and dual core are different but theyre an idiot too. dual-core is just the generic name.
You misunderstood. I was saying DUO core TECHNOLOGY vs DUAL core TECHNOLOGY. (As in that age) they are refered to now as Duo-technology not because of a shift in the number of cores (they both have 2 cores of course) but..in how they work. See, the dual core technology is more like 2 seperate cores working as one. However the duo core technology is more like 1 solid core working as 2..if that makes sense. Let me try to make an anology: Ok. Water pumps. The ammount of water pumped is the data. Ok. The water pump with dual core technology was two seperate pumps stuck together. It pumped out water at 40 psi per core or nozzle in this anology. Ok. So thats 80psi total. Now, the Water pump with Duo core technology is a pump that has one single nozzle; but the nozzle is much wider. It still shoots out at 80 psi (the force with 2 seperate nozzles in one pump)...BUT since the nozzle is so much wider: more water (data) is moved using the same ammount of pressure. You see, the pressure, in this analogy, is the clock speed. They may be close to the same in Dual vs Duo and it may be the same number of cores (2). So even though they are both 2 cores with a clock speed close to the same...they still need to be seperated..and we do this by saying "Duo core technology" vs "dual core" you see the duo core can be working at the same clock speed (80 psi in my analogy--- or lets say 3.0ghz). They are both 2 cores, both running at 3.0ghz (clock speed.) BUT the Duo core can move much more data per cycle. So at the same clock speed the dual core will pump through less data total than the Duo. Thats why the make the distinction with these two very distinctive pieces of technology. So, thats why I said it's DUO core not DUAL core because Dual core is old technology. Hope that makes sense to you. It's a common mistake that people have spread and is considered common knowledge that dual = duo. But they are NOT the same there is a reason for the distinction. Even if you google it now everyone is gonna say in 99% of things you read that DUAL=DUO but if you really dig deep and do your research you'll see that 99.95% of people are wrong. Just like if I asked how much time is in a day people would say 24 hours. But that's not the right answer. So..heh. Now you know.