Is the Intel Pentium B960 a decent processor?
Looking to get a sub $500 14" laptop for a niece that's going off to college. Not sure if the Intel Pentium B960 is a good processor? I think the primary purpose would be internet, email, word processing, a little photoshop, and streaming HD off the net. No hardcore gaming or anything. I know the i3, i5, etc. are better but also more money when they're in a laptop. So again... is the Intel Pentium B960 Processor 2.2GHz any good? Or is it so bad, I NEED to get an i3 system?
Other specs on this particular laptop that's running me about $469 (includes tax and ship) I'm looking at include:
*14-inch LED backlit display (native HD 720p)
*640 GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 RPM)
*4 GB installed RAM
*Intel HD graphics
*CD/DVD player/burner
*Wireless-N Wi-Fi
*HDMI output
*Up to 7.5 hours of use
My personal laptop is from a few years ago and it's running a Intel Core2 Duo T6600 @ 2.20GHz. I'm perfectly fine running Adobe CS5 and streaming HD vids. On the benchmark site, it ranks even lower than the newer Pentium dual core B960. This leads me to believe that it will be adequate in doing basic to medium tasks. Is there something I'm missing as to why the i3 would be that much better if this college student is going to do 'basic' stuff with it? Like is the quality cheap or something?
http://cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Duo+T6600+%40+2.20GHz