Air-y speculation

[Jared Earle]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Mark Smith
<markds.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>  Sure. I thought that went without saying, but I wouldn't have expected
>  such a noticable difference between the Core Duo at 2 GHz with a 5400
>  rpm disk and the Core 2 Duo at 1.6 GHz with a 4200 rpm disk if the
>  disks were in a similar state. They weren't, the 4200 in the MBA was
>  half-full and likely minimally if at all fragmented. The disk in my
>  Macbook is very near full and likely seriously fragmented.

I think it'll still be down to core vs core 2 more than you think.

"General application performance can improve a bit by switching to
Core 2 Duo, but the biggest performance gains are associated with 3D
rendering and media encoding tasks. Considering the nature of the
improvements to Intel's Core 2 processor, the areas in which it
succeeds are not surprising. If you use your notebook as a
professional rendering or encoding workstation with no desktop in
sight, then you'll probably consider Core 2 Duo a lot more carefully
than most."

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2808&p=17

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