Dell Says This is Why You Need a Quad Core CPU

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[SchizoFrog]

Continued...

Plus, if you tried to actually explain the REAL benefits of a Tri or Quad Core processor, your customer is likely to walk off and go somewhere else... They just do not want to know the details.

 

[pale paladin]

Believe it or not verbiage like that would help the 17yr old salesperson more effectively sell the quad than the dual core. I don't find it necessary to rip on this one. It's kind of silly to us but to the laymen it makes sense.

 

[polarbear2k]

Core 1 = Email
Core 2 = Photo editing
Core 3 = Antivirus
Core 4 = Porn

 

[cadder]

We've had arguments on this site for a long time about dual core vs. quad core. I built a dual core machine for my office, and later built a quad core machine for home. I picked the dual core because at the time I could get higher clock speed at a reasonable cpu price, and my apps were single core anyway. I built the quad core for home because I found a good deal on processors at microcenter. Most of the time I can't tell a difference but sometimes I can. The example of virus scan is a good one. A virus scan takes awhile and it will dominate one cpu. If you have a single core then you are dead in the water. If you have a dual core you can probably go on working but you will find times when you will bog down. With the quad core I never bog down.

Most people misinterpret "multitasking", and say they are multitasking because they have multiple tabs going in Firefox. This isn't multitasking. Having an email program in one window, a word processor in another, a browser in another, that isn't multitasking. Having an antivirus running in one window, while your browser is downloading something, while you are backing up your hard drive to a USB drive, while your email program is downloading 100 emails, now THAT is multitasking and that is what you need a quadcore for.

I notice that a few laptops have quadcores but most are using dualcores, and this is probably OK. It is harder to have a lot of things going on at the same time with a laptop as it is with a desktop machine with dual monitors. And then there are the netbooks with only one core. I could probably get by with that size machine for travel but I wanted a dualcore so I bought a 13" laptop instead.

 

[insider3]

I'm surprised Apple didn't think of that one first.

 

[tsnorquist]

I'd think it'd be more advantageous to both the consumer and business selling these products to have a display setup to show everyone what exactly the difference is in single, duo, triple, quad, etc processors is and what benefits they'll receive running them.

It'd be nice for the consumer to see what applications can take advantage of more than 1 core as well.

Not everyone is tech savvy, but the average laymen doesn't need to be insulted with such mundane examples.

This is how I approached things when doing retail many years ago, albeit not computer processors - strategy worked well.

 

[ravewulf]

Or, more realistically, use it for video processing. That'll use all of what ever you have.

 

[dannyaa]

And people complain about Apple's marketing.

I suppose when the only thing PC companies have going for them VS Apple is machines that are overpowered for what most people want to do, they have to try and make them appeal somehow.

 

[coldmast]

How about: "So you can upload to youtube, login into facebook, and post to twitter -- all at the same time" (just a stupid so please don't use it Dell)
"So you can spend more time doing and less time waiting"
"So your computer feels faster!"
"So you can play computer games at high frames per second on very low resolutions"
"now you can wait for your hard drive, faster then ever!"
"your internet connection feels even slower, now that your pages render 50% faster"

 

[kewlx]

i7-920
core 0 E-mail
core 1 Edit digital Photo
core 2 Virus scanner (oops takes me 5 mins to scan 1 TB) Core 2 now open..again
core 3 gaming
core 4 internet
core 5 downloading
core 6 virus scan again
core 7 something else?
Oops all cores open again because my computer can run stuff faster than dells. ( pretty much just sits at .017% all day with 60 processes running)

 

[jonpaul37]

Giggity!

 

[thejerk]

George Carlin:

"Think about how stupid the average person... just think, 49% are even dumber than that!"

The lowest common denominator is whom these ads target. That bar is set really, really low. Of course we're going to find this stupid. It is. And, so are most PC buyers. If you think about the ad target, then this ad makes sense.

Honestly, I think it was stupid for Marcus for posting this.

 

[exfileme]

That looks like something Captain Obvious would say :/

 

[Guest]

It's a tarp!

 

[deividast]

lawl..... Dell rocks..... It's actually a good marketing strategy, because there are lot more stupid people than smarts ones, so these people will be very excited about Dell's new product after reading something like that on the side

 

[darthhelmet]

How about reading FAIL? Try reading the whole ad - not just what Toms had circled. They are advertising the performance of the Inspiron 546. "...Choose your processor from an AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core, to a Phenom II X4 Quad Core. So you can check an e-mail, edit a digital photo and run your virus protection - all at the same time." They are saying the options available in the Inspiron 546 will let you do all those things on a budget. Not that you need the quad-core to do it. While it is debatable if you even need a dual-core...Toms drew attention to only part of the ad that supported their title for this article.

 

[sliem]

It should say "Quad core. So you can play Crysis."

 

[saint19]

The curious thing here, is that the thread that was created with the same picture was closed. Now, we can see that we really need the 4 cores, obviously I can't writing this, check outlook, write on MSN, listen to music and working at the same time without my fast quad-core processor.

Wait, I'm not at home. I'm in my job and only have a Xeon dual core, great now my PC is freeze.

 

[Honis]

Actually, depending on the virus scanner they bring a legitimate point. MY duel core is crushed by McAfee but my quad is actually usable during a scan (company PCs).

 

[Guest]

This shows how bad microsoft windows is, you need Quad for something you can do with far less power with any other OS.

 

[Guest]

I'd agree that this advertisement is a little ridiculous, but, on the other hand, getting better technology in the hands of more people helps push the envelope on the progression of technology. Software companies will exploit the new tech to its fullest potential and beyond. Where do the CPU companies go from there? They make even better products. If the less educated do fall for this add, then all the better for the industry.

 

[foody]

I don't mean to troll or anything but seriously, is this news?

 

[eddieroolz]

Oh Lord, both my laptop and desktop are incompatible with e-mail, it seems.

 

[masterasia]

For the average user who shops at Best Buy, it would make sense because for all they know, more is better. If you're buying an off-the-shelf system, then you probably don't know much about computers. A lot of my clients bring computers that have Semprons and Celeron processors and ask me why they're so slow.