Hey Geeks, Processor questions?

csudman

csudman

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Looking at 2 machines. They have to be dells(companys buying)

One is a Latitude w/ Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7250 with VT (2.00GHz, 2M L2 Cache, 800Mhz FSB) w/ 4 gig ram

The other is a Insperon w. a Intel® Core™ 2 Duo SU7300 (1.3GHz, 800 MHz, 3 MB) w/ gig ram

Which one? I like the looks of the insperon and it has a hdmi output(not avalible on the latitue. Will I notice the difference? From time to time I run Photoshop, indesign and Illustrator at the same time.
 
The SU7300 processor is designed to give you performance and use less power. These processors are known as the "atom killers", meaning they are faster than the Netbook atom processors and consume about the same power. While the T7250 is "faster", it performs about the same as the SU7300. It's close enough that you won't be able to tell a difference. The SU7300 will give you longer battery life over the T7250.

What you need to be looking at on these laptops is not the processor, but the rest of the components such as video, ram, dvd/bd and other features. If the SU7300 pc only has 1GB of ram then you will want to upgrade that to 4GB otherwise you will be very disappointed. HDMI is a nice option because you can plug it into your home theater, but outside of that there isn't much use for it. (in my opinion) The video cards that come standard in these should be more than sufficient for photoshop, illustrator, etc. The screen size is another area to look at. Be sure you choose the one that fits your needs. Also, look at the hard drive. You want to make sure the drive is fast. This and inadequate memory are usually the bottlenecks on most systems these days.

Hope that helps some. Below is a benchmark chart that will give you an idea of how each CPU performs. It is a searchable list. I've copied out the two processors you spoke of so you can see how close they are.


http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
CPU Type - Passmark CPU Mark (higher is better) - Rank (lower is better)
Intel Core2 Duo T7250 @ 2.00GHz - 1088 - 315
Intel SU7300 @ 1.30GHz - 1016 - 339
 
CJ, I have the latitude E6500. got it through school. The latitude is Dell's business line of notebooks. One thing I found out on mine that is kind of a hidden feature, is that it has dedicated memory for just the video card so that running big graphics programs doesn't bog the processor down as bad. So when comparing apples to apples the latitude wins over other lines of notebooks that appear to have similar stats. Also the video card in my machine is a pretty high performance piece right off the shelf, way better than what comes in the insperon. All that being said, there are a few things I am disappointed in on the latitude. One is the touch pad really sucks, I basically have to use an external mouse to keep my sanity, even after playing with the settings. The other is the software bundle it came with was weak, but I think that is what UNCC mandated to dell to keep the price down, so that may not be an issue for you. I am overall really happy with it. I can run solidworks, inventor, AutoCad, whatever...seamlessly. That's my experience but I am far from a member of the geek squad...haha

oh one other thing is that the batt life is more than sufficient for me.
 
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