Hi Mark,

i5 has Turboboost i3 doesnt: http://freepress.intel.com/community/news/blog/2010/11/30/what-is-turbo-boost
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?
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin Gicheru|Business Development|Techweez Solutions
>
> Email ID: martin@techweez.com | Tel:254721906171 | Website:
> http://www.techweez.com |
>
> Skype ID: martingicheru | Twitter ID:martingicheru |  Gtalk:
> martin@techweez.com
>


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Regards
Mabeya Seme Conseray
HP Solution Architect
mobile  no. +254 724 204 543
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