ic, thanks guys information from the both of you is exactly what I was
after, cheers
One more thing, the T5600 CPU can use a 64-bit OS? but the T2600 can not?
"Og" <Og@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>I have a choice of 2 notebooks with Windows XP Professional and was
>>wondering which would be faster
>>
>> Memory and HDD are the same but the difference between the 2 are the
>> CPU's
>>
>> Intel Dual Core Duo T2600 @ 2.16GHz
>>
>> or
>>
>> Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 @ 1.83GHz
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Faster at what? All things being equal:
> 1. For standard Office applications, you will never detect a
> difference between the two processors.
> 2. For processor-intense applications such as Auto-CAD, you will
> definitely detect a difference between the two processor speeds (e.g. 2.2
> GHz faster than 1.8 GHz).
> 3. For disk-intense applications such as rendering animated movies,
> a computer with a 1.83 GHz *processor* and a 10,000 rpm *hard drive* will
> be noticeably faster than a computer with a 2.16 GHz *processor* and a
> 5,200 rpm *hard drive*.
> Steve
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> Steve
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