Core 2 Duo Phased out by intel Core i series of processors feature an integrated "north bridge" hence intergrated GPU functionality and all other mambo jambo that NBs used to house Core Is (esp the modern 2nd Gen) are better than the dinosaur core 2 duos _______________________________________________ *The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, * *not in the code it's made of. ** * _______________________________________________ * * 2012/6/27 Humphrey Kirui <hkirui@gmail.com>
Hi Mark,
i5 has Turboboost i3 doesnt: http://freepress.intel.com/community/news/blog/2010/11/30/what-is-turbo-boos... Core 2 duo is old and inferior.
Look at Hard Drive speed (RPM) , RAM Speed (Mhz) and Bus Speed as well All these work together. The lower you go on price -while focusing on processor only- the higher the chances that the manufacturer is compromising these. Benchmark with high end specs like: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-HP-EliteBook-8460p-Notebook.57322.0.html - and leverage with an affordable machine.
Rgds, Humphrey.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:42 PM, mabeya conseray <mbshem@gmail.com> wrote:
ua workload requires Pentium generation processor but am imagining someday u might decide to do virtualisation if that will happen i would advise u go for i3s 5or i7s from my experience they work best for 64bit virtualization.
On 6/26/12, Martin Gicheru <martin@techweez.com> wrote:
Hallo Skunks I am about to spend some money on a laptop, not more than 60k. It has been my understanding that Intel core 13 is better in processing than Core 2 Duo. Today a certain techie wanted to dispel this, saying that the Dell Inspiron 1545(Core 2 Duo) would be better than the Dell Inspiron N5040(Core i3 2.66GHz with 3MB Cache) which is currently being sold by Safaricom at 52k.
I am not much of a developer, I do simple wordpress css and php dev for my site and other sites I run. Most of the stuff I do is blogging, reading (I can have upto 30 tabs of browser open) and ofcourse simple image editing for use on the blogs.
Would this be a good buy?
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