Not at all. Core 2 Duos are manufactured for both laptops and desktops.
It is a Processor made for laptops. Intel Core 2 Duo T5500.
The quad core processor has four cores. It is essentially two of the Core 2 Duo processors as the Core 2 Duo only has two. The quad core will be faster and as a result more expensive.
Core 2 duo is dual core. And before that was core duo which was dual core too...
core 2 duo will be better.
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The Intel Core Duo.
Yes
There is no difference between dual core and core 2 duo. Intel just name its recent family of dual core processors as "core 2 duo". Both (core 2 duo and dual core) works in same fashion.
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