The Gigahertz Dupe: Dell SmartStep 250N. the gigahertz dupe. Dell is promoting its 2.2 GHz notebook - but a closer look reveals that it's only running at half-speed. In order to compensate for this, it has a cut-rate price tag of $1600 and is outfitted to the...

• -Gaming Performance: Quake 3 Arena
• -Application Benchmarks: MP3 Encoding And Archiving
• -CPU Performance: Sisoft Sandra 2002 SP1
• -Operating Time In Battery Mode And System Performance
• -The Eternal Debate: Desktop Or Notebook CPU?
• -Dimensions And Weight: Smart But Not Slim

Down With Gigahertz Clock Speed Mania! Long Live The Processor Number!. intel. Intel's Dothan mobile processor has the trappings to boost performance while consuming less power. With a 2 MB L2 cache backed by Intel's 90-nm production technology, Dothan's promise...

rendering times. The actual performance of either configuration is similar to that previously see with our 3.0 gigahertz Core 2 Duo E6850, proving the better per-clock efficiency of the 2.66 gigahertz E8200 Dell uses as the base processor for its XPS 630. Mainconcept...

PC system that conforms with their minimum requirements. Matrox recommends a Pentium III or Athlon CPU running at 750 MHz or higher. Our system even has a Gigahertz processor under the hood. We decided to test it along with a DV camera from Sony, the DCR-PC110E....