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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. I think the obvious solution is... by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 0, Troll

    To save hundreds of dollars by not getting a virus in the first place. But that doesn't help Dell's bottom line much.

  2. Re:What? by ivan256 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Alt-tabbing over to another app during a game is instantaneous and snappy

    As sombody who has been using dual processors on his desktop PC since 1996 (It was a Dual Pentium 133 back then), I'd like to ask: Where are you suddenly getting all the memory bus bandwidth to make "Alt-Tabbing" from a game in windows 'snappy'? It must not be a very resource intensive game...

  3. True Gamers... by ShadowNetworks · · Score: 0, Troll

    True gamers build their machines. And there's days we wonder why "gamers" buy their overpriced machines from AlienWare and Dell...

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