Does Your Ex-IBM Lenovo ThinkPad Core 2 Duo T7200 Processor have only 2MB of L2 Cache instead of 4MB?
Update (4-10-2007): Check this video clip (.avi file: 12MB) out, which I took at a PC store in Taipei: A Fujitsu LifeBook s6311 running Windows Vista business edition. The device manager reports the processor is a Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 running at 2.00 GHz, but if you go to the control panel and look under system, it says it’s T5600 running at 1.83 MHz. The salesperson claimed it had a T5600 CPU. So is this a Vista bug or what?
Update (4-8-2007): I found official brochures from Fujitsu and Asus, both specify LifeBook s6311 and Asus W5Fe as having the “non-existent” T7200 L2 cache of 2MB. More typos?
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I’ve been looking to buy a 12” laptop with a track point in Taiwan where I’m taking a vacation.(Laptop makers of the world take note: there are MANY MANY MANY people desperately looking for laptops with a track point!) After a lot of browsing and comparing my only options are HP Compaq nc4400 and Lenovo ThinkPad x60. Both laptops have a configuration with the Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 processor which, according to the official specs from Intel, runs at 2GHz with 4MB of level 2 cache. After days of asking around, it became apparent that currently HP could only offer the nc4400 model with T5600, which runs at 1,83GHz and has a 2MB L2 cache. I am not a clockspeed person, but it’d be nice to have a bigger L2 cache so I turned to ThinkPad.
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