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Core i7-620M vs Core i5-540M

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I'm recommending a laptop to a colleague, and the specific laptop he has chosen has the above CPU chips as options. Both chips have 2-cores/4-threads. The i7-620M is a 2.66 GHz (4MB Cache) while the i5-540M is a 2.53 GHz (3MB Cache)....both Arrandale architecture. He is a .NET programmer working wi…

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Fix for: Core i7-620M vs Core i5-540M

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I did a lot of research on the i3, i5 and i7 at work. Basically (even with all the fancy numbers) with those 2 CPUs (especially if they are the Mobile (M) processors) your going to pay for 1MB more cache and 130Mhtz if you buy the i7. That is the do…

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