Noob question but still....

[MonKENy]

In a laptop either a Pentium dual core or a centrino core 2 duo?

Im not sure what the clock, cache, or fsb speeds were. My g/f's cousin told me she ordered a laptop and it was supposed to have the core 2 but because it was late/and they were having problems they gave her one with the dual core instead. The first one was a gateway and the new one is a vaio. No price difference. what do you guys think. I look around but it doesnt seem like that big of a difference between the two. What did I miss?

ok seems like what she has now is a http://processorfinder.intel.c...tails.aspx?sspec=sla4k

im looking for the old one. found it Centrino Core? 2 Duo Processor T5200

 

[lyssword]

If they run at same speed, t5200 is better, because 2mb cache vs 1mb on dual core

 

[MonKENy]

good point, i think they do run at the same speed. but all in all not much of a differnce, So I guess she did ok for what she got. I think the viao's are ok laptops. not sure though.

 

[o1die]

The 1 meg cache cpu may use less energy, if battery life is a concern.

 

[kotrtim]

T5200 is core 2 duo 1.6GHz processor with 533MHz FSB and 2MB of cache
T2330 is the same as T5200 except with 1MB of L2 cache.

It might hurt the performance quite a bit, but it is not noticeable for non-intensive task.

Nice topic to read

http://www.tomshardware.com/20...size_matter/page5.html