Dell Says This is Why You Need a Quad Core CPU

[Marcus Yam]

Dell advertisement points out what the power of a quad core processor can do for you.

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[theDARKW0LF]

Fail.

 

[Lessqqmorepewpew]

legit laymen terms, thanks dell

 

[asiaprime]

i need a quad core now!! /sarcasm

 

[icepick314]

they forgot to add

"It can play Crysis!!!"

 

[pwndcake]

I only have an x3 =/ So that's why my email won't load!

 

[Guest]

hah it also says that an ati 4350 is a "Premium" graphics card... fail.

 

[Onus]

Um, so if you choose the [default] processor, noted below ("Athlon X2 7550 Dual-Core Processor"), which one of those things can you not do?

Exactly, darkw0lf; FAIL.

 

[ern88]

Can I saw "FALSE ADVERTISEMENT". What a load of crap. They are praying on the un-educated people like the old. FAIL

 

[isamuelson]

This is rather old. Saw this months ago around here somewhere. Still, pretty friggin' hilarious that you need a quad-core for emailing.

Glad I upgraded to an X3 (unlocked the 4th core) so I can email now. Never knew what I was missing! [:isamuelson]

 

[jonpaul37]

Too bad they don't explain why you need a horrible low-quality PSU and Case that does not fit anything! Maybe then, people would look elsewhere as opposed to paying too much for a Sh%&y Dell...

 

[unknown_13]

There was a thread in Tom's Forum about the same picture 1-2 monts before

 

[Rosanjin]

We could do that with a single core P4 machine back in the day. If you had it under your desk, it even doubled as a footwarmer!!!

 

[Aionism]

I was thinking "you can play Doom 3 and do a virus scan...AT THE SAME TIME" back when dual core processors were something special. Whoever wrote that ad sure isn't aiming very high.

 

[Guest]

this wasnt posted here be4? im sure ive seen it but oh well, the technology is amazin, i could do this 6 years ago with my pentium, and today i can do it again !

 

[fancarolina]

Nice someone should tell Dell I can do all that on my new iPad as well. Oh wait I don't need virus protection.

 

[benzjie]

holy ****, antivirus...the ultimate wet dream.
( still one idle core btw)

 

[sliem]

You absolutely need dual core to run the following, all at the same time:
-run dell laptop or desktop
-boot dell laptop or desktop o/s such as windows xp/vista/7
-open windows explorer
-run virus protection program
-run notepad

 

[sixbone]

funny, i used to do the same thing with Windows 95 and a Pentium 166Mhz

 

[industrial_zman]

That's about as bad as AT&T telling us that we need at least a 6Mbps line for social networking, ie: Facebook, Myspace, ect...

 

[Guest]

You mean all those e-mail messages and virus alerts I received while editing photos on my old single-core PCs weren't real? Gasp!

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]fancarolina[/nom]Nice someone should tell Dell I can do all that on my new iPad as well. Oh wait I don't need virus protection.[/citation]
no, you need multi-tasking first

 

[danimal_the_animal]

You guys are HILARIOUS!

but seriously you missed one good point!

this is a GREAT "HONEY CAN I GET THIS ONE" excuse to get a quad core!

 

[SchizoFrog]

Ha... you all cry 'FAIL' and yet considering the idiots out there that frequently walk in to the likes of PC World and want a "Good PC" for £300 including monitor, mouse, keyboard and speakers, I can see the point of these ads. WE are not the target market for ads like this. Lets not forget that the more people who go out and buy PCs with Tri or Quad Cores from AMD or Intel the more stimulated the market is and the better sales are and prices come down.

 

[hokkdawg]

Honestly, I think that's brilliant. I also think the educated members of the Tom's Hardware community can verify this. For general productivity, the average computer user is running software that is, at most, optimized for dual cores. As it stands now, all benchmarks use metrics in one program running at a time - which is highly flawed in practical terms, since multiple programs are usually all running at the same time, demanding resources from the same CPU. Quad core alleviates this greatly; I actually wouldn't mind seeing a benchmark of having Outlook, Excel, Word, a Web browser, and iTunes all running things at the same time to really gauge the power of a quad core vs. dual core cpu.

Rambling a bit now, but I think Dell's actually done something right here.