Dell D600 Processor Specifications

• The D600 is part of the Dell Latitude range of laptops that was first released in 2003. The D600 is no longer available for purchase because the technology powering the model has now been superseded. Despite this, the D600 provides capable processing power and was the first Dell laptop aimed at the business market to incorporate an Intel Pentium M Processor. Below is a list of some of the key aspects of the D600 processor specifications.

Intel Pentium M Processor

• The D600 range of Dell Latitude laptops possess Intel Pentium M Processors, which are optimized for laptops. Introduced in March 2003, the Pentium M is a heavily modified version of the Pentium III Tualatin design, optimized for high power efficiency. This means that Pentium M laptops allow longer battery life but at lower clock speeds than those with the laptop version of the Pentium 4. The first generation of Pentium M CPUs were codenamed Banias and this is the version which was incorporated into the D600 architecture.

Processor Clock Speed

• The clock speed of the D600 series of laptops, which is the speed at which the processor carriers out its computational instructions, ranges from 1.2 MHz (megahertz) at the lower end of the spectrum, up to 1.8 MHz in the higher end models.

CPU Cache

• The D600 models come with 64 kilobytes of the faster, CPU integrated L1 Cache and 1 megabyte of on-motherboard L2 cache for models with between 1.2 and 1.7 GHz clock speed and 2 megabytes for models with a 1.8 GHz clock speed. The CPU utilizes CPU cache to reduce the average time required to access memory.

External Bus Frequency

• The D600 range possesses a 400 MHz, source synchronous processor system bus, which defines the rate at which data is transferred between different components of the laptop.