The laptop processor is the heart of the laptop that contains millions of transistors to calculate and process all the data. When it comes to buying a new laptop, the factors to be considered regarding the processors are the type of the processor, the speed, front side bus speed and the secondary grade cache.
Though the laptop processors are similar to those of desktop, they consume lower power and temperature and the two major producers of processors are the Intel and AMD.
The most common processor used by many laptops is the Intel core 2duo, which is a dual core unit. There are some Pentium IV models that use single core but they get hot faster and the power consumption is also high. There is another type of processor, called the Quad core technology, which is in its primitive stage. For the hard core gamers, core2 extreme is suitable but the price is high.
The speed of the processor is measured in megahertz or gigahertz and along with the RAM memory, the processor plays a vital part in determining the performance of the laptop. The front side bus is responsible for determining the speed at which the processor communicates with the RAM memory and the mother board and hence it also influences the performance of the laptop.
The secondary grade cache, also called level2 cache is a quick access memory that acts as a bridge between the processor and the RAM memory and thus speeds up the overall processing.
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