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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?

    1. Re:What? by sehryan · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't know, alt-tabbing out of Solitare and Mine Sweeper has always been snappy for me, and I have never run a dual core machine.

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    2. Re:What? by mmkkbb · · Score: 5, Funny

      The same way a Pentium III made your internet connection faster

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    3. Re:What? by Duds · · Score: 4, Funny

      The same way a Pentium III made your internet connection faster

      That actually worked for me. I stuck my brother on the P3 to play games which stopped him eating up all my bandwidth.

  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. Jesus Christ. by Gannoc · · Score: 4, Funny


    Did ./ just post an article from a guy named "Mr. Tits"?

  4. woah! by sk8dork · · Score: 5, Funny
    designed to let gamers simultaneously play three-dimensional games

    THREE DIMENSIONAL?!?!?!?!?!?
    O_O

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  5. 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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  6. Mike Dell knows his market by stlhawkeye · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Dell last fall and he mentioned several times that gaming is a major motivation for PC purchases. He said something like, "I think we've sold more World of Warcraft machines in the last year than anything else," in reference to residential sales. He struck me as very savvy, very aware of his market and his products, and how to stay ahead of the pace. I was unsurprised when Dell acquired Alienware.

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  7. Many usages by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...a dual-core processor system designed to let gamers simultaneously play three-dimensional games while encoding music or scanning for viruses.

    Or, you could use *both* cores and play a six-dimensional game!

    Makes sense to Atari anyway...

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  8. Dell-usional by Launchpad+Mcquack · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Im purchasing a $4,000 laptop, it surely won't be from Dell. I'd buy Alienware long before I ever even considered Dell.

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  9. Re:Great Expectations... by striker64 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You don't have very creative uses for your PC do you?

    The fact of the matter is, dual core processors help tremendously in many scenarios. Why should I wait while my 1 hour miniDV video is being transferred to my PC sucking up 10-15% CPU, when I can play a game during that time and not notice the slightest slowdown? How about those instances when I'm developing, compiling my app and my whole (single CPU) system slows down to a crawl ... gone are those days with dual core. You have obviously never used a dual-CPU system for any extended period of time, otherwise you would not be saying such foolish things.

    And which computer these days has only 1 optical drive? Even the cheap emachines from 4 years ago came with a DVD-ROM and CD-RW.

  10. Wrong title by MoogMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the title should read:

    Dell Aims for Windows Vista users