Please clariy....

[daneoni]

Does Dual Core 2.0 GHz mean 1GHz on each Core or 2.0 GHz on each core making a combination of 4.0 GHz total?

 

[illustratorDavi]

2ghz each. Its not considered as 4ghz - normally they just share tasks.

 

[daneoni]

So its more like 1 2GHz processor that can do two things at once (hence two cores) rather than two 2GHz processors in 1 chip?

 

[iMeowbot]

So its more like 1 2GHz processor that can do two things at once (hence two cores) rather than two 2GHz processors in 1 chip?

It really is more like two processors in one chip. Don't worry about the insistence you'll sometimes see that "processor" and "core" are somehow fundamentally different things, it's mostly packaging and marketing hooha, not so useful for getting a general idea of how much oomph a system has.

 

[NJuul]

So its more like 1 2GHz processor that can do two things at once (hence two cores) rather than two 2GHz processors in 1 chip?

No...
It's like two independent 2 ghz processors, each capable of doing a seperate task while working at their maximum speed (of 2 ghz each).
If you had one 2 ghz processor with hyperthreading, you could do multiple things at once, but the tasks would share the 2 ghz speed.

 

[daneoni]

Oh ok