CPU Gurus. PLease help me out! Very Confused!

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mike12

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I currently own a very good HP NX series business laptop with a docking station and it's running fine but I am itching to get a new one for no particular reason at all.
My laptop CPU is a T2400 with 2MB of L2 cache and the new processors are 1MB L2 cache unless I buy a Centrino 2 duo which are also 2 MB and up in L2 cache. I am not interested in 64 bit OS and apps so that is not an issue.
If I get a compuer with the T4200 processor (1 MB L2 cache), will it be a huge upgrade? What about a T6400 C2D processor? Will that be a huge upgrade?
I believe my T2400 CPU has an advantage over the T4200 because of the 2 MB L2 cache but please tell me if I am missing something here. My laptop has an 80GB HD and no webcam but I'd hate to buy something without knowing if indeed it will be an upgrade.
I use the computer for programming and some photoshop and illustrator and I have 3GBs of RAm and a ATI 256 MB dedicated video card.
Please educate me and thanks.
 
If it works for what you are doing, why upgrade? It goes along with the saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
 
Thanks for the replies but I still need to know if there is a huge difference amongst performance between those CPUs I asked about. I know somebody in OD who can give me the HP G70-246US for $450 and an Acer with the C2D T6400 for the same price. Thanks.
 
In my opinion the T6400 does have more processing power than the T2400 processor, but it will likely not be a real noticeable difference. I wouldn't upgrade to a T6400.
 
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