whats the difference between a 1.5GHz and a 2.60GHz in a laptop?

Question

The laptop i have now which is a dell inspiron 1150 has 2.60GHz with an intel celeron processor is VERY SLOW and i intend on getting a compaq V6560ea with Intel core 2 duo processor with 1.5GHz

Answer 1

You are asking the wrong question... I'll answer the one you meant to ask!

2.6GHz (even as a celeron) should not be very slow, you computer may have a virus that is using most of your computer power trying to spread itself to other computers. Or if it's a heavily used-XP machine it may just have it's registry and disk muddled up.

First off, if you don't have one, get an anti virus and scan the PC. AVG is a good and free one.

Second off, if you don't have one, get a spamware killer (eg AdAware by Lavasoft) and clean off the spam.

Third off uninstall any apps you no longer use

Fourth off run a disk defragment on the disk drive.

If those speed it up enough, you've saved yourself buying a new laptop.

If it's still slow, save your data and reinstall the PC with a fresh copy of XP. Put back your programs and data. That really shoul dget it back to it's best performance. If it's fast enough, you've saved buying a new laptop.

If it's still too slow, a Core Duo laptop with 1.5GHz processor should be comparable to a 2.6GHz Pentium... quite a bit faster than a Celeron 2.6GHz... IF you are running lots of application threads (doing lots of things at once). If you are running one single-threaded application then it may be slower.

But... a Celeron 2.6 GHz should not be VERY SLOW for normal use. There is something wrong - remember how fast it used to be when you got it!

Answer 2

You would see a tremendous advantage in multitasking, running several applications at once. However, there were several benchmarks run on both single-core and dual-core platforms for games, and there was no significant advantage running a dual-core processor.

Therefore, for a system that does run a lot of background programs, you should see some improvement, even though the CPU is clocked at a lower speed than the single core. If you are looking for improvement for a single application, though, you more than likely won't see one.

Your best bet is to try them side by side with similar installations, if possible.

Good luck!

Answer 3

It might not be the processor that is making your computer slow. How much RAM do you have? Press CTRL+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager...go to the Performance tab and look at the Available Physical Memory. How much are you using out of your Total? If you are using most of your RAM, get more. That will greatly improve your speed.

Answer 4

A computer with 1.5GHz will be a lot slower than your Dell that has 2.60GHz. 2.60 is a lot of GHz, so it shouldn't be going so slow.