Pentium dual core or i5

[Jrmillion]

Pentium dual core processor or i5 Wich should I go for not a gamer but put good strain on the processer and I'm talking about laptops and Wich of two different Asus to buy plz help thanks Asus x553m or a core i5 vpro 6 gig of ram 500 gig hard drive a 1gig dedicated graphic card

 

[Hamperking68]

Personally unless you're only using it for office programs an I5 would be the better choice.

 

[kraelic]

Most laptop I5 are more like desktop I3 chips (2 core 4 thread) with boost clock. Better than Pentium 2 cores at a static speed though.

 

[velo3100]

Since you said that you need cpu speed an i5 will be better.