whabang wrote:
... and it performs like a 800 MHz single-core Core 2 Duo (expected, since they're based on the same design. :-)
Not really... Core 2 is at least 50% faster per MHz (per core) than Pentium III: larger caches, vastly improved branch prediction, improved SSE/2/3. Depending on code (SSSE3), a Core 2 Solo may be several times (!) faster than a P3.
There may be applications (e.g. very RAM intensive) were the speed does not scale beyond the P3 equivalent, but that's more an exception of the rule.
