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A 2nd Core to Keep Windows Chugging Along?
Eh-Wire writes "Almost every hardware junkie I know would give most anything to take a spin in the new dual core hot rods from Dell or one of the custom system builders. But what if you actually needed that second core to run your anti-virus, spyware detection software and firewall just to get a little gaming or Internet surfing done on the first core. Would that really be a good reason to bring home a shiny new machine? I can think of a couple of different things I could use a second core for but running an iron lung on it just to keep the machine chugging along just isn't one of them. Curiously enough, PCMag thinks that's a perfectly good reason."
I site using flash gives (sometimes) more value, and the processor is there to use, where as a bloody word processor that drags my compy down to die pumps out the same end result in about the same time as another one that takes a fraction of the processing power. You can't compare a flash site and a word processor in that manner.
Frylock: "We should have cloned twenties, Jackson wouldn't have given a fuck."
...is the fact that XP Home is deliberately crippled so that it only supports one CPU / core. So if you try using XP Home on a dual-core CPU, you'll see worse performance than on a high-end single-core CPU.
XP Pro is limited to two CPUs / cores; however, the $100 price difference will make most customers buy the cheaper Home edition. (I'm talking about the type of people who actually buy pre-made computers in the store, not those who build computers themselves and can thus get the software for less.)
I think that it's pretty clear that
a) your troll sucked
b) the submitter was really complaining about the probability that the second core will be lost to overhead.
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
Try getting the letters in the right fucking order you dolt.
That was classic intercourse!