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Dell Aims for Gamers with XPS M1710

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the send-review-hardware-and-beer dept.

Mr Tits writes "Dell moved to solidify its position in the lucrative gaming market yesterday by launching the XPS M1710, a dual-core processor system designed to let gamers simultaneously play three-dimensional games while encoding music or scanning for viruses. "

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  1. What? by Duds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Play games while encoding music or scanning for viruses"

    Even as a desktop replacement that's just not sensible. Unless you're playing games from 1998 you're still going to need every teeny little bit of power that thing has, and you'd still be alt-tabbing out of games to check the other tasks, which will do nothing for them.

    And how exactly the hell does "Dual core" help you when you're thrashing the hard drive wildly trying to virus check?

  2. Scanning for viruses? by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is scanning for viruses a regularly scheduled activity for windows gamers nowdays?
    WTF?
    Heey everyone! Now you can use your computer AND scan for viruses at the same time! How awesome is that!

    Is that really a selling point?

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  3. Dual CD drives? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since nearly every game out there requires you to have the CD in the drive to launch it (ignoring no-CD cracks for the moment), where are you supposed to put the CD to encode music while you're playing games? Or are they referring to the raw wave files of your band that you just finished recording before starting into a heavy gaming session?

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