Can anyone help with relative performance?

[DancingBear]

I am trying to judge the relative performance gain between a PIII-M 1.2 from a 2 year old Dell 2600 and a new Dell X300 (w/ Pentium-M 1.2 low voltage). The benchmarks from reviews look really good, but none of them relate beyond the Pentium-M family, especially not back to the PIII-M.

I am trying to figure out if the X300 with have good enough performane for an everyday office-use machine, or should we be looking at a Dell 600m instead.

Can anyone offer any insight?

 

[Frightcrawler]

600m is going to beat the x300 performance-wise, but the x300 is built much better than the 600m.

 

[DancingBear]

but how they both perform relative to the PIII-M 1.2?

 

[sciencewhiz]

better

Never seen an article with exact numbers, though.

 

[dnuggett]

For everday office machine use you are fine using either... ie the P3 will provide adequate performance assuming you are not running some very intensive progs. What counts most for almost all "business" type programs is the amount of RAM you are using. I would not recommend using anything less than 512MB. That should cover most of the spectrum of everyday apps with enough speed to keep you happy.