On Monday 21 August 2006 10:52, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 06:28:42PM +0100, Ian bell wrote:
PC World's latest TV advert has a saleman extolling the virtues of a dual core Pentium. Dual core? asks the customer. Yes, replies salesman, Let's you do more than one thing at a time.
At the very least misleading to the average punter. I have complained to the advertising standards authority.
Why? Technically it /does/ allow you to do more than one thing at a time (taken in the right context obviously) as you can execute 2 instructions at once (one on each core al-la smp) currently multi-tasking isn't /really/ multi-tasking as you are switching between things very fast so it appears you are doing more than one thing at a time. Granted it isn't the most technical of explanations, I think the bloke says,
"It allows you to do two things at once, like, I dunno, downloading an email while you're uploading a tune." "Cool", says the hip, young customer. R. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis Sonic Arts Research Archive http://www.sara.uea.ac.uk/ JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-