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Buying a laptop, specs are confusing me

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 2026510 views
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So, the FSB and cache specs are what confuse me. Intel® Pentium™ Dual Core T4300 (2.1GHz/800Mhz FSB/1MB cache) as opposed to paying $200 more for: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8700 (2.53GHz/1066Mhz FSB/3MB cache) Would that be worth it? I'm a .Net developer, I listen to music, I do NOT watch movies, I don't…

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Either machine will do the job. The larger cache will mean the CPU will more often be able to get the data it's working on from cache, rather than having to reach out to slower RAM. How much difference will that make? That depends on the programs yo…

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