Honestly, you don't need that great of a processor for most of your applications.
While I do have a gaming desktop, I also use an old crappy laptop for most of my business use which is normally an internet browser and a word processor. Machines that are 5 years old can handle that fine.
I have ubuntu on a machine from 2000 with only 256 megs of ram and can run desktop effects that are much like vista without problems at all.
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Honestly, you don't need that great of a processor for most of your applications.
While I do have a gaming desktop, I also use an old crappy laptop for most of my business use which is normally an internet browser and a word processor. Machines that are 5 years old can handle that fine.
I have ubuntu on a machine from 2000 with only 256 megs of ram and can run desktop effects that are much like vista without problems at all.