Intel Dual-Core Systems Begin Shipping Monday

ThinSkin writes "The wait for Intel's dual-core processor is over, that is if you're willing to fork over some dough for a Dell or Alienware system bundled with the chip. Intel just announced that Monday marks the first day dual-core systems hit the market with Dell's Precision 380 workstation and its next generation Dimension XPS desktop, which start at $2,999. PC Magazine got a chance to play with the XPS system and came away quite impressed."

Comments

Perfect system for that North Pole Wifi Hotspot

[Anonymous Coward]

At least cooling won't be a problem.

I can just see the problem

[stewwy]

winxp to processor1 : please open this window.
P1 to winxp: No I'm busy, ask P2
winxp to P2: open this window
P2 to winxp: ask the other lazy sod
winxp to all: please or I'll BOS
P1 and P2: go on then, we don't care
user: ?

Dedicated CPU for spyware processing

[DigiShaman]

With all the spyware running on boxen these days, it's finally nice to have a CPU dedicated to spyware thread processing.

Why should users prevent and remove the stuff when they can just throw more CPU cycles at it just to keep the PC responsive?

And yes, the whole premise behind this is absurd. But people often have and do throw money at a solution out of acts of being lazy/responsible when it comes to system maintenence.