Dell Says This is Why You Need a Quad Core CPU

Fail.

legit laymen terms, thanks dell

i need a quad core now!! /sarcasm

they forgot to add

"It can play Crysis!!!"

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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...

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!!!

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.

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 !

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

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

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

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...

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

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.