I have searched a lot and haven't been able to find benchmarks between core solo and core duo based processors in notebooks. How much difference is there between the two? I'm not interested in a gaming notebook.
Thanks
If you only ever do one thing at a time, the speed will be about the same.
Go to the CPU tab above and look at the old A64 vs. A64 X2 and P4 vs. P4D articles, the relative speedups will be similar, comparing 2 CPUs with same clock and cache, one single-core and one dual.
The main benefit is doing 2 CPU-taxing things at once, both tasks run at full speed.
For basic business stuff, a core solo with a decent amount of RAM is probably just as good as a duo. But you can get some duos for pretty cheap these days.
As said, if you only do one thing at a time you won't notice the difference. But if you multi-task at all, you will notice a difference and IMO there is no point in not getting dual core these days. Core Duo notebooks start well under $1000
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