Laptop CPU comparison

[Nelviticus]

Hello there,

I have a laptop with a 2.2GHz Celeron M. My friend is selling a laptop with a 1.6GHz Pentium M which he has offered to me for a good price.

Does anyone know how these two processors compare? Tom's Hardware have loads of information comparing CPU speeds but it doesn't cover mobile processors very much at all. From the research that I have done the Pentium M should be faster than the Celeron M despite the lower clock speed but I can't figure out by how much.

I know there are many factors in comparing the two laptops but they are roughly equivalent on other features so the speed will be the clincher. Unfortunately I can't do a proper test at the moment because he has wiped his hard drive ready for selling it.

Regards

Nelviticus

 

[garebo]

Check with intels website, they will have performance info.


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[Nelviticus]

Sadly Intel only seem to have performance benchmarks for their very latest CPUs. I've done an awful lot of searching but just can't seem to find anything that compares the two. Oh well.

Nelviticus

 

[Wishdiak]

Nelviticus,

There is more than just the clock speed of the CPU to consider when benchmarking performance. The rotation/access speed of the hard drives could be different. Even if both laptops have the same amount of memory, one could run on a faster memory bus than the other, one could have faster video, etc.

Sometimes the comparison is not as simple as just the CPU clock speed.

If the price is *great* then you could buy your friend's laptop, install an OS, and benchmark them yourself. If it's merely *good*, then maybe you could borrow it for benchmarking against your laptop.

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[Nelviticus]

Yes, I realise that there are other factors. His laptop is older but has a larger HD, bigger display, better graphics and so forth but raw CPU speed is they key thing that I'm interested in. I'll be using it for development with Visual Studio .Net and number-crunching power will be more important than other factors.

My current laptop is adequate. If his is only a little faster it won't be worth buying but if it's more than 10% or so faster it'll probably be worthwhile. As you say I think I'll have to bite the bullet and ask him whether I can borrow it, reinstall Windows and run some benchmarks.

Thanks for the input.

Nelviticus