Would Appreciate Your Opinion on My New Processer & Laptop

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Peachesbackwards

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I'd appreciate anyones honest opinion on this "new" Thinkpad laptop I just ordered, good or bad, to replace my much older one which had some keypad damage- don't ask & wasn't worth repairing. To put this new laptop in perspective, I only use it as a second computer in my bedroom just for the internet, downloading & word processing, when I'm too lazy to get out of bed & use my excellent desktop in my den. It has broadband cable wifi connection & I don't use the laptop outside of the bedroom. I also don't do gaming but the fastest internet speed the better.

Anyway, I bought from a very reliable regular computer seller on Ebay an R60 Thinkpad with a 1.83 GHZ duo core processer. How does this rank with processers in terms of speed as I'm a little unclear of the pecking order? I think it should be a vast improvement from the Pentium 3 I had in my old Thinkpad. The laptop has a 14.1" screen which I preferred to a larger one for my vision on the bed, 512 RAM- I will be upgrading to at least 2 GB, XP which I wanted over Vista anyway & 40GB Hard Drive which is more then enough for what I'm using it for (My desktop has 120 & I've never gone above 25).
It cost me $599 plus $30 shipping plus tax & is in excellent condition with a 90 day warranty.

Is there a web site that ranks processers? Thanks for your opinion, good or bad.
 
not bad... although the processor is more or less on the middle of the scale considering the ones you can get now (this is assuming you have a Core Duo and not a Core 2 Duo)... but it should work fine...

what are you using it for? just office applications and internet type stuff?

EDIT: here's a link for mobile CPU benchmarking, again assuming yours is on the list...
 
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Thanks for your link & info. I wish I knew that info beforehand. It looks like my
processer is in the lower half grouping from your link (I'm assuming the 1.83 Duo Core is the 2400 listed) when I do the tests.

At worst, hopefully it still should be a big improvement over my Pentium 3.
I just use the laptop to mainly surf the internet & download music & torrent
video files & the occasional word processing.
 
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