[LMF]

Hi Guys,

I'm hoping someone can give me some advice. I'm in the market for a new computer and a big part of my use of it is going to be with calibre. I have about a 30thousand book collection that needs a fair bit of work done on metadata etc.

What I'm wondering is whether a quad core (over dual core) laptop would be more beneficial for work with calibre or whether clock speed should be the greater consideration. My (limited) understanding is that not all programs can utilise multiple cores and I don't know if calibre can or not. It will be either an i5 or i7 with 4-8gigs of ram and I do multitask a lot. My present laptop (an old inspiron 1525, win 32, dual core, 3gb ram, 1mb cache) predominantly slows down and maxes out the cpu only when I'm using calibre so I'm presuming anything will be fine for the other programs I run and my key consideration is what laptop specs will be most beneficial for calibre. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

And a huge thanks to those who created and keep calibre running strong!

Linda