On 08 Aug 2006, at 5:41 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 8 Aug 2006 at 17:12, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 08 Aug 2006, at 5:01 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
and the CPU was a
2.8GHz with an 800MHz frontside bus
Was it a Core Duo? You can't compare Core Duo chips to previous Intel
offerings using MHz alone (which is, BTW, why it would be useful to
be able to search Dell's site by processor). The Core Duos give
*far* more bang-per-MHz than Pentium 4's or Pentium M's.
No, not a duo core, but why do I care?
Because looking at MHz alone will not tell you whether a Pentium D
will outperform a Core Duo. The Core Duos are designed to deliver the
same performance as the Pentium series, but at a much lower clock
speed. In other words, you might think that a 2.8 GHz Pentium D
would be faster than a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo -- but you'd be very,
very wrong.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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