Notebook Intel Processors and specs

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I am looking at buying a notebook and want to know what the better options are for Intel Processors?

I see you get Intel Core 2 Duo processors which look promising, but not sure if this is good processors or economic versions?

Thx!:confused:
 
Intel CPUs are arranged into a few main ranges...

1) Celeron - The cheapest of the cheap. Ideal for the extremely-budget conscious user who isn't bothered with performance. Expect low clock, low cache, low price and low performance.
2) Celeron Dual Core - Slightly better than the Celerons, but pretty much just 2 Celeron cores on one die. Still not a performer.
3) Pentium Dual Core - Good for the average user; good clock speeds with low cache. Can usually be overclocked to yield an insanely good-value CPU. Most people that use their PC for office work and the like are fine with Pentium Dual Cores.
4) Core 2 Duo - These are the mainstream performance processors. They have high clocks and lots of cache. They also feature the most features. They are, however, divided into a few ranges: the T-series CPUs, the P-series CPUs, the U-series CPUs... The T-series are the most mainstream. The P-series are the performance, low-voltage CPUs (better battery life). The U-series are the ultra low-voltage CPUs; less performance, but great battery life.
 
Just some more info...the newer celerons are pretty good, acting like core2solo (U series) with much less cache, celeron dual cores are also not bad, again just with lower cache.

Diff between T series and P series Core2Duo is the P series are newer, known as the Centrino 2, most difference is the higher fsb than their T counterparts.

You can't really go wrong with any intel chip these days...as long as its based on the conroe architecture (pentium 3 origin) it'll be efficient and good enough for most mobile work
 
Nameite said:
Just some more info...the newer celerons are pretty good, acting like core2solo (U series) with much less cache, celeron dual cores are also not bad, again just with lower cache.

Diff between T series and P series Core2Duo is the P series are newer, known as the Centrino 2, most difference is the higher fsb than their T counterparts.

You can't really go wrong with any intel chip these days...as long as its based on the conroe architecture (pentium 3 origin) it'll be efficient and good enough for most mobile work
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The core2solo chip is a misnomer because it only has one core. (Probably the other failed during testing).

It comes quite low on the performance list, so I don't know why Incredible Connection are stocking these now.
 
Hence they lowered the voltage to make it the ULV - new line of thin battery saving cpu...pretty clever.

Though I'm not sure about the disable core...thought thats more common with AMDs
 
Awesome great thanks guys - that's really helpful.

Then one more question regarding graphics cards; is the ATI Radeon Mobility X2300 128MB dedicated Graphics a good one? I am looking at running Blender on it and do some design work?
 
Sackboy said:
The core2solo chip is a misnomer because it only has one core. (Probably the other failed during testing).
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It's not a misnomer: Core2 is a brand/microarchitecture e.g. Core2 Duo = two physical cores, Core2 Quad = 4 physical cores and Solo = 1.

The Solo might only have Celeron M series performance, but it is a lot better than the Atom processor and has awesome battery life. Works pretty well for my portable needs.
 
"Core2"
"2Core"

When they picked the name they knew it would be interpreted as such, even before quad came around.
 
Or it could just be that Core2 is the successor to the Core microarchitecture. This is kind of trivial though, so let's move on.
 
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