Acer Aspire Timeline 5810TG or Acer Aspire 5738Z?

Hi,

I'm looking to purchase a laptop and I've narrowed it down to the Acer Aspire Timeline 5810TG and the Acer Aspire 5738Z.

The Timeline has a bigger hard drive, longer battery life, and better specs overall, however, one thing I am worried about is the processor speed.

The 5738Z has a Intel® Pentium® Dual Core (T4300, 2.1Ghz 800Mhz 1MB L2 cache ) whilst the Timeline has a Intel® ULV Core 2 Duo (ULV SU9400, 3 MB L2 cache, 1.4GHz, 800MHz FSB).

I know the Core2Duo are the more modern version and are supposed to run faster, but is the slow CPU speed of 1.4GHz going to make the computer much slower than the Dual Core 2.1GHZ?

Sites like cpubenchmark.net seem to think so, as they have ranked the 1.4GHZ really poorly, even though it is Core 2 Duo and has an impressive 3mb cache.

Does anybody know, in reality, which CPU will run the computer faster and if there will be much of a difference?

I want to use the computer mainly for internet work-related activities (multi-window firefox, word, outlook express/windows live mail, dreamweaver, all running at once etc) as well as listening to music/watching movies, and I want to know which of the two will be better suited.

Thanks very much for your help.

 

There's a benchmark list of all mobile CPUs on notebookcheck that has both of these. It looks like you are right and T4300 is significantly faster in every benchmark compared to SU9400.
You haven't mentioned that you need very long battery life in your requirements- so T4300 seems to be a better choice for general usage and more future-proof too.

 

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