The Difference Between and Intel Core 2 and Core Duo

Neo-Fight Ben Freedman: Hi there and welcome to Neo-Fight TV the technology-review with two-points of view. My name is Ben Freedman. Tiffany Young: And I’m Tiffany Young and today is Friday! Ben Freedman: Friday! Tiffany Young: September 29th. Ben Freedman: Friday September 29th. Tiffany Young: And today is he day that we answer some of your questions sent to us via email. Ben Freedman: Via email. Tiffany Young: We love those questions keep them coming. Ben Freedman: Keep those questions coming. Tiffany Young: Okay, our first question is “What’s the difference between an Intel Core 2 and a Core Duo?” Wow, I am so confused. Ben I bet can probably answer his question because I have no freaking clue with the differences. Ben Freedman: I think this is a huge mistake by Intel. The naming, the naming system they come up with here is so dumb, it’s so confusing to a lot of people because first they came out was the Core Duo and now their new one is called the Core 2 Duo. Now let me explain. They first came out with a Core Duo and there was two chips that was core Duo and the Core Solo and basically this was just Pentium M, the same Pentium that a lot of laptops had but there was the single core, the Core Solo and dual core, Core Duo and the funny thing is very few computers have the solo. You almost never saw it. They made the Core Duo so cheap to buy. Nobody put the solo in. Tiffany Young: Right, nobody make sense, right. Ben Freedman: Nobody put it. Have you ever heard of a Core Solo? Tiffany Young: No. Ben Freedman: But you’ve heard of a Core Duo. Tiffany Young: Yes. Ben Freedman: Right, in fact most laptops these days ship with the Core Duo. Tiffany Young: Which is what I have? Ben Freedman: Which is what you have, it’s what I have, it’s what a lot of people have. If it’s older it’s the Pentium M, Centrino, Pentium M. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: But if it’s a new one it’s Core Duo and because it was only a couple of laptops that were made ever with the Core Solo. Tiffany Young: Wow. Ben Freedman: So it was kind of stupid for them to have the solo and duo. Tiffany Young: It’s like vintage. Ben Freedman: Yeah, yeah. They’ve just come out with this brand new technology called the Core 2 and it’s a dual processor chip as well so they call it the Core 2 Duo. Now there is no— as far as I can tell there is no Core 2 Solo. There just isn’t one but the two there doesn’t represent the number chips, it represents as their second generation of Core. Tiffany Young: I see yeah I got you. Ben Freedman: So it’s Core 2 Duo which is kind of redundant because there isn’t a single core chip it’s a dual processor chip. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: So what you really need to know is that the Core Duo was the first generation dual core chip and the Core 2 Duo is the second generation core duo chip so the new ones that are coming out will have the Core 2 Duo. Tiffany Young: What’s the difference between Core Duo and a Core 2? So that’s a second generation again I get that but— Ben Freedman: So he Core— Yeah it’s a lot faster at the same speeds it’s quite a bit faster. Tiffany Young: I think with the same— Ben Freedman: Even in the same specs. Tiffany Young: Same technology it’s not— Ben Freedman: No, it’s new tech, it’s all new technology. Tiffany Young: Oh it’s all new technology. It’s all brand new. Ben Freedman: The Core 2 and the original Core are very different. Tiffany Young: I see. Ben Freedman: But their Dual Core, the Core Duo and the Core 2 Duo. Tiffany Young: Right, wow very good question. Ben Freedman: It is and not a great answer I think. Tiffany Young: And very confusing. No, I think it’s a good answer, I mean I get it, finally. Ben Freedman: Yeah, it kind of run into our second question which is. I bought a Dual Core System but it doesn’t seem any faster than my previous single Core system what’s the big deal and this a case of the hardware kind of getting ahead of the software, because let’s say that you have a just out of interest, let’s say you have a 2 gigabyte single Core system and a 2 Gig, not gigabyte, gigahertz. And a 2 gigahertz dual Core system, if you are running one single program let’s say your running Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word is not going to be any faster on a 2 gigahertz single Core than it is on a 2 gigahertz dual core. Tiffany Young: We’ll Rex has a reason to be. Ben Freedman: There’s no reason to be faster. Here’s the only thing. Let’s say that you’re burning a DVD and running Microsoft Word on the original system that CPU has to split its attention between burning the DVD and Microsoft Word, so on the single core system that will now run at half the speed. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: Because you’re doing two things and you’re splitting the time it’s going to take. On the dual core system word and the DVD burning will both happen at full speed because one core will handle the burning of the DVD and the other core will handle Microsoft Word, so if your only running Microsoft Word and that’s what I assume this viewer is doing, you buy a dual core system but you are only running one thing, not going to get any faster. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: But if you’re buying— Tiffany Young: It’s for your multitaskers. Ben Freedman: It’s for the multitaskers. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: Yeah, having said that there’s a new applications now that even the one application will split its tasks up. For instance— Tiffany Young: Nice. Ben Freedman: Encoding MP3s, if you’re converting MP3s from like one format to another burning disk so the new applications will split the job up so they are including one part of the job on one CPU and part of the other and those will even a single application will run a lot faster. Tiffany Young: Wow. Ben Freedman: But if you are not using one of these new ones and you know a year or two they will all support Dual Core but if you’re not using one of this new ones or one thing that is a very processor intensive you are not going to see (00:05:25) Tiffany Young: That is really, really interesting. Imagine what we’re going to be like 10 years. Ben Freedman: Yeah well you have 4 cores or 8 cores more like 50 cores. Maybe 50 cores that’s hard core. Tiffany Young: [Laughs] Ben Freedman: That was almost a joke. Tiffany Young: Wow, yeah that was Ben. Ben made it funny. Ben Freedman: And that’s all the time we have for a Neo-Fight.TV this week please visit our website www.neo-fight.tv that’s where you can subscribe to the podcast and there’s a link a there where you can send us a question. We love to get the questions. Tiffany Young: Absolutely, we love to keep them coming. Ben Freedman: We learn things as well. Tiffany Young: Absolutely and thank you for you guys being so smart, you know emailing. I mean some of these I can answer but you know some of these I just obviously have no idea and I learn right along with you so yeah I think like that. Ben Freedman: And this is learning what life is really all about. Tiffany Young: It absolutely is. I’m just a tree that is flowering under the sun and growing inch by inch just like the rest of us. Ben Freedman: We’ll see you Monday and if you happen to have an extra 30 seconds. Tiffany Young: Let’s just grow together. 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