AMD Turion selections?

Question

The only thing I can recognize in these processors is the frequency. Are some processors needed for different applications?

AMD Turion(TM) 64 Mobile MK-36 (2.0 GHz/512KB)
AMD Turion(TM) 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 (1.60GHz/256KB)
AMD Turion(TM) 64 X2 Mobile TL-52 (1.60GHz/512KB)
AMD Turion(TM) 64 X2 Mobile TL-56 (1.80GHz/512KB)
AMD Turion(TM) 64 X2 Mobile TL-60 (2.0 GHz/512KB)

I'm not using CAD and I plan on having 4 or 5 web pages open at a time and a couple MS programs open (such as word and outlook) Does X2 mean double processors? some are 512KB...512kilobytes of what?

Answer 1

Yes X2 means they are dual core, the 512KB is refering to the cache. The first one listed is single core, that is what makes it different. The second one has less cache then the last three. The last three are all basically the same except for the increased clock speed. I would go with any one of the last three, the higher the better, whatever you can afford.