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I couldn't find all the numbers for any 2007 mainstream notebook cpu, but here is a comparison between 3720QM (an upper mainstream, 2012) and P8400 (upper mainstream 2008):

    Model           3DMark06 CPU    Cinebench R10 32Bit Single    Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi    SuperPI 1M*    SuperPI 32M*    wPrime 32
    3720QM              6470                4810.5                    16822                        11             594                12.9
    P8400               2014                2526.9                    4700.6                       22.1          1212                34.2
                         321%                 190%                     358%                        50%            49%                 38%

So you would see 2x performance in single threaded, 4x performance in multithreaded and probably way better battery life due to stuff like TurboBoost (and getting a new battery :-)

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Thanks for this - appreciated :)

Perhaps I should take a look at a newer machine! Battery life is what is super-important to me.