Intel T4400 vs Intel i3-350

[TH_Saga]

Hello,

Can anyone point me to a review or benchmark on these two CPUs? I'm basically trying to decide if I should buy a portable for my girlfriend with the T4400 (already available) or wait for the i3-350 model (will come within a month).

She won't play any games, it will most be for web browsing, e-mail, video-calls, word processing (Office 2010) and some photo editing (Photoshop CS4), all under Windows 7.

The i3-350 model will be around 25% more expensive, but I'm wondering if it'll get 25% more performance too. If not, I might as well get the T4400 right now!

Any help, links, or opinions appreciated.

 

[enzo matrix]

Core i3 will be 2.26GHz.
T4400 is an older cpu on socket P at 2.2GHz.

I'm willing to bet the core i3 will have at least 25% more performance.

Here is a clock for clock comparison of the core2 vs i3
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?p=118&p2=87

Now take into consideration that the T4400 will only have 1mb of cache.

 

[daship]

I3 will own, Ive seen laptops on the market with it already @ newegg.com.

 

[TH_Saga]

Thank you both!

Although that link doesn't have the exact models I'm looking for, the closest comparison seems to be between the i3-530 and the E4500, and the difference between those two is more like 50%, so I'm now confident that the mobile versions should have a similar difference, with i3 winning by a landslide

Thanks again for the help, Valentine's Day is going to be great