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Core 2 Duo's not that much faster
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rmansfield
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Oct 2, 2006, 04:41 PM
 
Interesting story from O'Grady:

http://www.powerpage.org/archives/20...tery_life.html

Turns out the Core 2 Duos in notebooks only average a 7% increase in speed. Personally, I'm glad that I went ahead and ordered my MacBook a month ago. This is the best notebook I've ever had, and I'm not sweating that I didn't wait for a 7% increase in speed!
     
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Oct 2, 2006, 04:58 PM
 
The actual change depends on the apps you use. Anandtech had the same results two months ago; some benchmarks are up ~2%, others are up ~20%. AnandTech: Mobile CPU Wars: Core 2 Duo vs. Core Duo
     
   
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