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Pentium and core 2
Name: Deimos Date: October 10, 2007 at 10:24:08 Pacific OS: Windows Xp professional S CPU/Ram: CPU:2.6x2Ghz Ram:2048mbs Product: Hp pavilion dv5000
Comment:
In Portugal schools are selling Notebooks to teachers and studants for 150€ + 12 months of Wirless Internet:
Here are the specs: Pentium Dual Core 1.46Ghz; 1Gb Ram; 80Gb HD; Vista Premium; Office 2007;
They dont mention the Video Card...but overall do you think its worth it?
PS:whats the difference from core 2 Duo and Pentium Dual core?
Amd Athlon 5200 2.6ghz; Asus m2n-e sli; 2GB DDR800 kingston; Asus GF8600GTS; Seagate 7200rpm 320GB;
Name: jam Date: October 10, 2007 at 15:40:27 Pacific
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What is € ? is that a Euro? I think 150 Euros is approx $215 US, so it's a good deal.
"whats the difference from core 2 Duo and Pentium Dual core?"
Pentium Dual core is "old" technology...the Core 2 Duo is modern technology. The C2D is a much better performing CPU & is more energy efficient, so it's better on battery life.
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Response Number 2
Name: Cobra_R Date: October 10, 2007 at 15:55:55 Pacific
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The IGP is prob an Intel 950G
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Response Number 3
Name: protohunter Date: October 10, 2007 at 17:19:09 Pacific
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The Pentium Dual core does use new technology and uses the Core microarchitecture and if anything uses less power then core 2 duos due to less cache (although I may be wrong on the last part)
The Pentium dual core and Pentium D are DIFFERENT CPUS, Intel quietly released the Pentium dual core to give more performance then celerons but less than core 2 duos, basically there mainstreem core 2 is high end and celeron low end.
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