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4.5 stars
"Bulletproof!"
Pros: Fast, Quiet, A Powerhouse for Digital Media.
Cons: Unwanted preloaded norton software.
Summary: I had a friend from Intel help me design this system given the Dell options available, and I am extremely pleased! My only source of irritation is the Norton Ghost program which is unnecessary with a RAID setup. We use this system for Ipod audio and video processing, business applications, just about everything, and you can't beat the performance of the Dual-core processor for running multiple applications. Just make sure you have two gigs of ram (one for each core)...
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First, I work at Intel sites(vendor) and Intel employees are barely qualified to go to the bathroom unsupervised. Don't try to name drop. It's not classy. Second, this is hardly bulletproof. Buy the 600 and spend a few hundred more now or buy another computer 18 months from now. That said I just bought the 400 and I am satisfied. I use it for mainly for web surfing because I have a life and a woman. No time for dorks and dweebs here. Let's call it like it is, it's an above average computer for the price that will have you kicking yourself 6months from now for not waiting for something else. As for intel bashers, go home and run linux some more. These are the same people that hate MS. Companies are #1 for a reason and it's not all advertisements. It would take AMD years to get to the production level necessary to really compete with intel. And I dislike intel. Anyways, cheers and lets be nice to one another.
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You cant split ram over 2 cores... especially not in windows. Each core is unified on a single die, and operates its own cache. The memory controller is partially in the cpu, the rest sits next to the DMA controller on the motherboard. the 2 gigs of ram will definately help out... but it has nothing to do with CPU. There is no way to "Assign" 1 gig to one core and the other gig to the second. The most you can do is assign process priority to one core.
Overall all the viiv is doing is adding DRM (digital rights media management) at the hardware level. It dosnt show any improvement over the intel dual core processors already out. Not to mention, DRM only limits the type of music, video,etc you can play back... since it has to be bought from a place supporting Viiv. This is just another cash cow for intel in my opinion
