Throwback: T-4500 upgrade to T-9800

[SammyGoad]

So I recently revived a 2009 Dell Inspiron 1545 with 8gbs of DDR2 800Mhz, a 128gb ssd, and Ubuntu. Since the case was cracked and had tons of dumb stickers from my youth I didnt feel like peeling off, I wrapped it in Ducktape and cherished it the Crapple Trashbook Pro. Since this is supposed to be a (terrible) competitor to the new Macbook, I tried to match spec where I could with memory, ssd size, but now I want to upgrade the CPU. I am told that the new macbook is a dual core clocked at 2.9Ghz(its really hard to find the exact model cuz all the real specs are drowned by Touchbar fever), Im thinking that the T-9800 would be a great poor mans version of this CPU. It has the same TDP and I've read that its compatible with a BIOS update. What do you guys think, should I go for that or try my luck with the Extreme duo series?

[SammyGoad]

https://ark.intel.com/products/91156/Intel-Core-i5-6360U-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz Found it, apparently the cache is sub divided among the cores which really messes with CPUboss scores

[TheRandomness]

5 minutes ago, SammyGoad said:

https://ark.intel.com/products/91156/Intel-Core-i5-6360U-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz Found it, apparently the cache is sub divided among the cores which really messes with CPUboss scores

Make sure the sockets are the same. Because I can tell you, the i5 and the T9800 are definitely not on the same socket  (and the i5 is BGA, therefore not upgradeable)

[SammyGoad]

Thanks, I'm not going to an I5, Im stuck at the Core Duo line going from a T4500, 2x 2.3Ghz to a T9800, x2 2.9 + 2 threads