t6600 vs p7450

Hey guys, my first post. About to buy my first laptop mostly for internet, wordprocessing, watching movies/tv, viewing pics/videos and occassionaly copying a movie. Nothing that intensive.
From everything I've learned since finding this sight, spending the extra $50 for a P7450 will not yield any noticeable improvement so I'm thinking that the t6600 should be fine. As matter of fact for what I'm doing, going to a P7550 wouldn't even make a difference. Am I correct in this assumption?

 

The P7450 will run slightly cooler, and will save a little battery life. It will be a bit faster, as 2.13 > 2.0, but this you will probably only notice this in intensive operations and benchmarking. The difference between the P7550 and the P7450 is negligible, again with it only being faster in benchmarks and intensive applications.

I think the extra $50 dollars for the P7450 is justifiable by what you are using it for. If you don't need the extra battery life, or you are alright with having the processor that runs a tad hotter, then the T6600 is fine.

 

Actually the T6600 is a 45nm Penryn core running at 2.26. It will actually get higher ratings than the P7450, but it consumes more power at 35watts vs 25watts for the P7450. Also like CZX58 said, the P7450 will save power though, by a pretty wide margin. And neither support vT.

 

Oh yeah, I was wrong. Disregard my first post, the T6600 is in fact faster. I was thinking of the T6400.

And the T6600 runs at 2.2Ghz. The P7550 would be a TINY bit faster, but you would only notice the difference in stuff like benchmarking.

 

Stick with the T6600 - the greater power consumption is not significant enough to be worth $50.

 

for $50 difference I'd go with undervolted T6600

 

You guys are probably right but know I'm considering the p7550 which is $100 more than the t6600 but would not only give a slight increase in speed, but also lower power consumption. Again, most that I'm reading suggest that my real improvements with the p7550 will lean towards less power draw and less heat, which would seem to indicate longer life overall. This will be it for at least the next 5 years if all is right in the world.

 

Can any laptop that has a T6600 be upgraded to P8400?

 

Actually the P7550 will NOT give you an increase in speed because the CPU is not the bottle neck in any of your usages.

And if you use undervolting, there will not be any difference in heat or battery life.

My advice: get the T6600 and invest the $100 in a fast hard drive.

 

i would get a T6600 and undervolt it... then i would look out for a great deal for a T9000 or P9000 series processors... way cheaper to upgrade urself then buy it with the better processor.

 

So, any laptop with stock T6600 are upgradeable to any of those processors then? You just have to undervolt the cpu in the BIOS and it's easy, correct?

 

Undervolting is done with RMClock or similar programs.

undervolting guide

 

Yes to the socket question, t6600 is socket p, and so are all current generation t and p series intel processors that aren't like ulv. Core i3-i7 are a completely different socket.

 

yes u have to use the undervolting guide... it's easy to use... just have to be careful with voltages u use... too little , BSOD... anyways , don't expect the BIOS to have any options other than to change time... or enable VT... but just on the same side , can u find another notebook with similar specs but with a VT processor... in case the notebook with T6600 doesn't have VT support... if u could tell use the model which ur planning to buy , it would help.

 

I researched it heavily so it would be easier for me to just buy a laptop with VT support. ;-)

It's actually an easy assessment. Basically, any Intel-based laptop that has a P8400 processor or better will have it. I don't know about the low voltage processors, just the Socket P ones.

 

ya P8000 series and T9000 series will do....I would get one laptop with P8700 and you won't need to uprgade... its slightly less powerful than my T9400 which has 3 MB more L2 cache but same speed....

 

Would the P9500 be more powerful than the T9400?

 

Yes.

Also look here: http://notebookspot.nl/charts/cpu/

 

no... same clocks and cache.. just 25W TDP.... u undervolt a T9400 by 0.0125V and u get a P9500... max voltage for P9500 is 1.162V ... my T9400 is running at 1.125V

 

True, I was wrong, I thought the T9400 would be lower clocked.

I'll blame it on Intel with their stupid numbering

 

What exactly will you be using it for? Chances are with your specs it won't make a huge difference.

 

lol i blame u for not checking intel website