Core duo 1.6 or 1.8ghz?

[imported_fictionised]

G'day guys.

A friend of mine is about to buy a Dell, and can't decide whether he should spend the extra $144 to get the 1.8ghz intel core duo in his notebook, or just opt for the 1.6ghz...

Is there much difference for it to be noticeable? Are there some benchmarks comparing the two?

Thanks!

 

[F1shF4t]

well what ur planing to do with it, encoding u'll prolly reduce the time very slightly, and the laptop wont be for games probably.
Anyways get the cheper one, it will be only ever so slightly slower (prolly not even noticible), and u will save battery life, well a few seconds of it

For a notebook i always look for a slower cpu with a faster gfx card, i mean i would rather have a sempron 3000+ mobile with a mobile 7800gtx or something, than a core duo with a GMA pos. To bad its hard (and prolly not possible) to find laptops like that.

 

[Ranulf]

From what I've read (can't remember any links at the moment) and previous answers given to me here, its around a 10% increase in performance at best, average being 4-8% or so depending on the programs. If you're going to do a lot of number crunching, video encoding etc. it might be worth it. Otherwise, I don't see the point. Save the money to get more ram, a better optical drive, hard drive etc.. In reality, since most programs/games are using only one core, you're looking at $144 for 200mhz.