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esbenm   10-24-2009 at 09:36:25 PM

I am buying a Dell Studio 15 for these purposes:

Photoshop/Lightroom
World of Warcraft (possibly a few other games, but mainly WOW)
Browsing/Office/iTunes

I am considering these 4 CPU options (prices converted to USD):

Intel Pentium Duo-core T4300/2.1ghz/800mhz/1mb cache - 4gb memory - 1076 USD
Intel Core 2 Duo T6600/2.2ghz/800mhz/2mb cache - 4gb memory - 1276 USD
Intel Core 2 Duo P8700/2.53ghz/1066mhz/3mb cache - 6gb memory - 1496 USD
Intel Core 2 Duo T9600/2.8ghz/1066mhz/6mb cache - 6gb memory - 1704 USD

The basic specs:
15.6" screen 1920*1080
Radeon 512mb HD4570 GPU
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

My old laptop has a Core 2 Duo T5600/1.83ghz/667mhz/2mb cache CPU, a x1400 GPU and 3gb memory. Wow runs sluggish and Lightroom can be sluggish as well. So I need something faster.

How large a difference is there between these options?
I am guessing the 6gb memory could be very nice for Lightroom?
What do you recommend?

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