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Originally Posted by Pinemarten
A friend of mine didn't think it was a 'true' dual core because I didn't pay enough for it. Last June; the case/PS, MB, CPU, 160HD, DVDRW, XP-OS, only cost $1200CDN. Are there two types of 'dual'?
I am just running Rosetta now, but it seems to 'crunch' 2 units at once and complete them in 2.5 hours.
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It sounds like a dual core to me, I have one dual core system, and it crunches two at a time. Also, that price sounds about right for a lower end dual core (at that time, they are cheaper now, I paid $900 for my dual core laptop in October) As far as I know a dual core is a dual core regardless, there may be differences in whether or not they share other resources, but it would still be a dual core in that it can run two threads at the same time.
Thanks for the message about SETI, I haven't looked at their news in a while, and my thanks to Sun as well.