Which would be faster

[Clayton]

I have a choice of 2 notebooks with Windows XP Professional and was
wondering which would be faster

Memory and HDD are the same but the difference between the 2 are the CPU's

Intel Dual Core Duo T2600 @ 2.16GHz

or

Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 @ 1.83GHz

Thanks

 

[Paul]

I have a choice of 2 notebooks with Windows XP Professional and was
wondering which would be faster

Memory and HDD are the same but the difference between the 2 are the CPU's

Intel Dual Core Duo T2600 @ 2.16GHz

or

Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 @ 1.83GHz

Thanks

An article here, says the Core 2 Duo is 10% faster at the same clock speed
than a Core Duo. Which makes your choices about equal.

http://www.geekpatrol.ca/2006/09/imac-core-duo-and-core-2-duo-comparison/

In terms of power consumption, the Core 2 Duo is rated 34W and the
Core Duo is rated 31W.

http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9U7 (34W TDP)
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9K3 (31W TDP)

HTH,
Paul

 

[Og]

I have a choice of 2 notebooks with Windows XP Professional and was
wondering which would be faster

Memory and HDD are the same but the difference between the 2 are the CPU's

Intel Dual Core Duo T2600 @ 2.16GHz

or

Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 @ 1.83GHz

Thanks

Faster at what? All things being equal:
1. For standard Office applications, you will never detect a
difference between the two processors.
2. For processor-intense applications such as Auto-CAD, you will
definitely detect a difference between the two processor speeds (e.g. 2.2
GHz faster than 1.8 GHz).
3. For disk-intense applications such as rendering animated movies, a
computer with a 1.83 GHz *processor* and a 10,000 rpm *hard drive* will be
noticeably faster than a computer with a 2.16 GHz *processor* and a 5,200
rpm *hard drive*.
Steve

Steve

 

[Clayton]

ic, thanks guys information from the both of you is exactly what I was
after, cheers

One more thing, the T5600 CPU can use a 64-bit OS? but the T2600 can not?

 

[Clayton]

The notebook is a Toshiba Tecra M5 and Toshiba have absolutely no 64-bit
drivers or applications listed.
This is a real disappointment.

 

[Paul]

ic, thanks guys information from the both of you is exactly what I was
after, cheers

One more thing, the T5600 CPU can use a 64-bit OS? but the T2600 can not?

Check the two processorfinder.intel.com URLs I provided. One lists "EM64T"
and the other one doesn't. The Core 2 Duo is the one that has EM64T support.

There is a long article here, that mentions EM64T in passing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em64t

Before buying a copy of a 64 bit OS, check out the driver situation to
see if it is worthwhile. I don't know what drivers will work in a
64 bit OS environment. The above Wikipedia article says:

"Device drivers must be 64-bit versions; there is no support for
running 32-bit kernel-mode executables within the 64-bit OS."

HTH,
Paul