I want to buy a laptop and have found the one I want on two websites. It's exactly the same on both places, but one of them has an Intel Core CPU and the other is Haswell Intel Core. I started wondering what the difference might be.
After a little research I could mostly find reviews or comparisons between the i5 and i7, or this sort of thing, but not what Haswell actually means. Can anyone help?
Haswell was the development codename for the newest iteration of the Intel Core architecture. Haswell-era Intel processors primary benefits to the end user are reduced power consumption and increased graphics performance.
If the one that's only described as "Intel Core" is on this list, it too is Haswell. If not, it's a generation or two behind the current generation.
It's Intel's latest micro-architecture codename.
You can see more about what this means on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarchitecture) but essentially, it's the successor to Ivy Bridge, and relates to their newest series of chips.
