There is quite a difference in performance between those two processors. Whether you will notice the difference will depend on what you use your laptop for.
Are both M chips? Or are you comparing a regular 2G Pentium with an M Pentium? M is for cooler operating in notebooks & for longer battery life. I have a 1.5M in a notebook and a 2.4 reg Pentium in a desktop, and I don't see much difference in basic tasks. I'd spend some of the $400 on more memory or just keep it.
Sorry one more my brothers computer says it runs at only 798mhz and it is a 1.73Ghz processor is there a way to change that
What he is seen is speedstep in operation whereby the CPU speed throttles down to its minimum when its full processing power is not needed. If the system detects that more processing power is required the CPU speed will ramp up to its maximum.
The two chips are definately different in speed, and you might notice a little bit of difference, as the mathematical difference is 400MHz. With two processors that different in speed, if you use CPU-intensive applications, you will notice a difference. If the difference were, say, 200MHz, then no difference would be noticeable, outside of benchmarks.
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Message Edited by AntiSniperSpy on 08-30-2005 02:56 PM
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What he is seen is speedstep in operation whereby the CPU speed throttles down to its minimum when its full processing power is not needed. If the system detects that more processing power is required the CPU speed will ramp up to its maximum.
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