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Dell Inspiron 15 : Pentium Dual core or Core2Duo ?

post #1 of 7
12/7/09 at 11:03am
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My wife's a teacher and needs a new laptop and I was looking at a Dell Inspiron 15.
It's a pretty good deal, until you start customising it.

Since she only uses it for office, mail, web browsing and some music with Media player or iTunes, I know the integrated Intel GMA4300 will suffice.

However, I'm not sure about the processor. There are three options, a celeron dual core (which is really low-end, so out of the question), a 2.1 Ghz pentium dual-core (T4300) with 1Mb of cache and a 2.2 ghz core2duo (T6600) with 2Mb of Cache. They all have 4Gb of RAM.

Both the pentium dual core and the core2duo come with Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) so I expect even the dual core can't be that ancient as far as architecture is concerned.

Is it worth it to pay 140 euros more (about 200 dollars) for the core2duo, taking into account that the machine is not going to be used for video-encoding or games (we have a desktop for that) ?
I'd rather spend the 200 dollars on three-year in-home warranty instead.

Thanks in advance for the replies
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post #2 of 7
12/7/09 at 11:09am
You almost answered your own question. The T6600 is the better CPU, but if it's only going to be used for word processing, internet and nothing CPU intensive, you should be fine going with the Dual Core CPU and taking the $200 and spending it on the warranty.
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post #3 of 7
12/8/09 at 4:51am
I just got a family member a t4300 over a c2d to asve money and I also realised after looking at benchamarks that the T4300 was better/faster than my c2d T7200. Go figure!
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post #4 of 7
12/8/09 at 6:57am
I just bought the 15 with the T4300 processor for my brother. It came to $454 shipped with a 1-yr onsite warranty. Here is a benchmark page that shows all of the CPU's compared:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_look...00+%40+2.10GHz
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post #5 of 7
12/8/09 at 12:54pm
Nice. Would love to see pictures and maybe a review if you get it.
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post #6 of 7
12/8/09 at 6:47pm
Thread Starter 
Ordered the Pentium Dual Core. Thanks for the feedback.
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post #7 of 7
12/13/09 at 11:14am
Would be nice to hear about how the new models hold up indeed.
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