Dell Says This is Why You Need a Quad Core CPU

[theafricandude]

Wholy cow. When i view this post the first 6 comments all had likes of 20. : P and 20 was the common number through out the comments page. : P But Dell is still FAIL

 

[Guest]

Uh, this is a perfect ad for Dell's typical target customer. Need I say more???

 

[Xenophage]

NAO U CANZ EMAILZ 4 EMAILS AT TEH SAME TYME? SWWEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTT!!!!!!

 

[skatt3rbrain]

I just feel bad for the dummies who don't know that it's bull. It's like telling somebody they can't pass on a freeway without a big block V8 lol

 

[Icehearted]

Maybe they're smoking what the Dell guy was before they fired him?

 

[dif4us]

I email so fast now I get my replies back before I even hit send.

 

[razor512]

Weird, On my netbook while in the college building, I will run MAYA and photoshop cs3 at the same time while using firefox (I can create and edit 3d objects but I cant render as it is too slow to do it in a reasonable amount of time)

The good thing is that I can simply launch my vnc client then transfer over the project files to my main PC then have mental ray render it there.

While the ad is not accurate, it will help sell a product to someone who has no idea about computer hardware.

From my experience, if you explain how multithreading works and also how single threaded apps can benefit from having more cores but also why depending on the budget, in some cases it may be better to go with a fast dual core instead of a quad core with 4 slow cores, especially when gaming, they tend to get lost very quickly. (this was a while back when things when quad cores were just beginning to get popular)

so sometimes you have to give dumbed down answers and as a result, you also lose accuracy

 

[Bruceification73]

I already do more than that at the same time with a crappy old computer

epic failure

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Nobody NEEDS a quadcore for anything as silly as this. You NEED a quadcore if you're number crushing, developing or altering software, running serveral games or big software applications at once, or simply want the bragging rights!¨

So far my i7-920 has only been fully utilized twice. First while encoding a dvd to divx and playing diablo 2 in software mode at once, and second when I was running 3 copies of borderlands at once and had the diablo 2 running in the background as well.

 

[razor512]

The ad is wrong but think of it this way

how do you upsell to someone who may only use their computer for really basic things that a 6 year old computer can do with no problem?

 

[rajiv1990]

i dont think there have have been enough softwares or applications that still benefit from this much cores