Is an Intel Pentium dual-core 1.46 processor equal to a 2.5 processor in speed?
The Intel Pentium DualCore 1.43Ghz is the Merom T2310 with
533fsb, 1MB L2 Cache, 65nm, and the unnamed 2.5Ghz could only be
the Intel Core2Duo Penryn T9300 with 800fsb, 6MB L2 Cache, 45nm.
The Penryn is newer, faster and more efficient.