Core i7-620M vs Core i5-540M
- by Shalan
Hi,
I'm recommending a laptop to a colleague, and the specific laptop he has chosen has the above CPU chips as options. Both chips have 2-cores/4-threads. The i7-620M is a 2.66 GHz (4MB Cache) while the i5-540M is a 2.53 GHz (3MB Cache)....both Arrandale architecture.
He is a .NET programmer working with SQL Server and Oracle, and occasionally…