(21/01/2012 12:51 AM)deathmock5 Wrote:  Question 2: Will this make my codeing life better?

Not really.
Programming does not require much system power at all (unless your code is specifically system intensive) - probably the most intensive thing will be compiling large codebases, if you ever do that.

Unless you're looking into a quad core (which generally aren't that good for laptops), you won't get much from upgrading the CPU.
That's assuming you can upgrade the CPU too.