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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."
Is just that -- a review of Dell's XPS Gen 5, rather than a review of Intel's dual core, actually. Still,I guess there's a bit about dualcore.
HP was, and still is taking orders for Dualcore Opterons systems:
http://theinquirer.net/?article=22553
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The UltraSparcIV is a dual-core chip. Been shipping for quite a while now - maybe even more than a year.
And just like the first UltraSparcs from about a decade ago, it's also fully 64-bit....
Yes. The next Nintendo console will be PowerPC-based, and the PS3 will use the Cell, which is PowerPC-based (I think). The PS3 also claims to be using multiple CPUs.
What I can't understand is how these companies are planning to deal with the enormous amount of heat that will be dissipated from a multi-CPU system, and not make the console sound like a jet engine at the same time. Anyone able to shed any light on that?
You complain that Dell is over priced while singing the praises of Apple in the same breath? How very amusing! I can't believe you even presume to be serious about this.
At $2999 for the Dell, and $2999 for a dual G5 2.5GHz from Apple, I would say Apple has the value here. But if you rather, you can buy the Dell... I am saving my pennies for the Apple.
I don't get it
Yes, you obviously don't. Hyperthreading is not in any way like a dual processor or dualcore processor. On a HT processor you still can have threads waiting and not doing anything because another thread which is using e.g. the single FPU that the system has. If two computationally heavy threads want to run, they have to wait for their turn on the single FPU. And that is just one example for HT. On dualcore and dual processor systems you have everything doubled, which is a Good Thing.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
You're comparing Apples to Dells here...
According to the article, the Dell has a 20" LCD, a Radeon x850, a dual layer DVD+/-RW as well as a DVD-ROM drive, 500GB of disk and 1GB of ram, a 5.1 surround sound speaker system and has dual TV tuners. An Apple dual G5 configured that way? For $3,000? I'd LOVE to see that. Coming even close to that runs well over $5000 without the speakers or TV tuners.
And this Dell is STILL a rip off!