Front Side Bus

[KenProspero]

Am looking at two laptops

Each has a gig of memory. One would have a 2mhz Intel M chip and a 400 mhz FSB. The other would have a 1.86 mhz chip and a 533 mhz FSB.

Any way to judge which will have better performance? Or am I likely not to notice?

[A_K]

I'm guessing that performance would be pretty close. Probably depends on what you're doing with each machine.

[fluxrad]

I think you mean 2Ghz and 1.86Ghz since otherwise you're talking about 15 year old computers [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Can you find out what kind of chip each has? The biggest determining factor will be the L2 cache (more is better). Assuming they both have something like 512k, I would take the box with the faster bus.