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So I have the option of getting a Q9000 or the new T9900 to swap out my T9400 with.

What do you guys say? The T9900 will just give me more clock speed with the same L2 cache and FSB, and the Q9000 is over 1GHz less clock at 2GHz, but it's a quad-core, vs. dual-core. L2 and FSB are the same all around.

I'll make a poll out of it for those who just want to click and go, but I'd love some opinions as to why you vote for the one you think is better suited, considering it's a laptop, albeit a pretty good size one.

Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz, 6MB L2 cache, 1067MHz-FSB (T9900)

OR

Core 2 Quad 2.00GHz, 6MB L2 cache, 1067MHz-FSB (Q9000)


Thanks very much for participating!

It depends on what you're doing. What are you doing?

I'd go with dual core. Q9000 is just too low end imo - where as T9900 would well last until proper quads become mainstream.

Tend to agree with Quicklite and the common vote... The only situation where a quad would be better is if you regularly run specific CPU-crunching tasks that utilize more than two cores, or run virtual machines, compiling many things simultaneously, etc. Typically such scenarios are exhibited in computing servers, not laptops.

Thank you guys! I definitely don't do anything in the way of what you said a quad-core would be beneficial. So the T9900 it is. I did some more research, and it looks like gaming is another thing that multi-core CPU's are good for.

When do you think we will see a new crop of CPU's from Intel? Nehalem is up next, right?