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Core 2 Duo Notebooks Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-it-fits-in-the-something-of-your-something dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the launch of Intel's Core 2 Duo chip today, I found this article that not only covers the new chip itself, but also reviews and benchmarks two retail notebooks. It's interesting since one machine has the entry level 1.66GHz CPU while the other has the top end 2.33GHz chip."

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  1. Re:Heh!.... Can't compare by pacalis · · Score: 0, Troll
    Right, but intel was losing a tonne of benchmarks to AMD so created a tonne of lingo and tm's so no one could really figure out how to compare them....

    The "WTF, ok, better buy intel, better buy new" monopoly marketing approach.

    PS Without sorting through all the garbage a smart shopper will buy AMD until Intel comes back with sequential names based on some performance metrics that the consumer cares about.

  2. Why is this news? by Mycroft_514 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have a laptop sitting here next to me which is a dual core 3.6 GHZ machine. It is already 1.5 years old.

    Control panel says "Pentium(R) 4 3.59 GHZ 2.00 GB of RAM". Why yes, it was a custom build for me, and yes I do use it, but not as a gaming tool as much as I do for CASE tool processing.

    So why do we care about a "top end" 2.33 GHZ machine?

    This is old news, move along here.