Laptop CPU comparison

[alanack]

I'm looking at two nearly identical low end laptops:

1) Celeron M 540(1.84GHz), FSB 533MHz, 1 MB L2 Cache.

2) Core 2 Duo T5250(1.5GHz, FSB 667MHz, 2MB L2 Cache($100 more).

The latter seems like it might offer the best performance, given the dual core and other stats, but thought I would ask you ET'ers before proceeding. Thanks.

 

[gnome]

Quote from alanack:

I'm looking at two nearly identical low end laptops:

1) Celeron M 540(1.84GHz), FSB 533MHz, 1 MB L2 Cache.

2) Core 2 Duo T5250(1.5GHz, FSB 667MHz, 2MB L2 Cache($100 more).

The latter seems like it might offer the best performance, given the dual core and other stats, but thought I would ask you ET'ers before proceeding. Thanks.

Celerons are actually pretty good. However, the C2Ds have outclassed all that came before.... and they're still getting better.

 

[Tums]

the software demand will continue to increase; multi-core is the only way to go.

 

[gnome]

Quote from Tums:

the software demand will continue to increase; multi-core is the only way to go.

True. It won't be long before there will be no single cores at all in the market.