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Originally Posted by Robster
I just saw a TV advert for PC World featuring Intel dual core systems and when the "cutomer" asks what dual core means the assistant tells him it lets you "do two things at once, like uploading email while you're downloading tunes!"
This is such a rediculous statement suggesting you can't multitask with single core processors.
But I guess this is what we've come to expect from PC World.
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Technically speaking, they are not lieing here. A single core machine can only execute a single instruction at a time so whether the instruction is part if your uploading thread or your downloading thread, you can in fact only do one thing at a time, whereas a dual core processor will do both at the same time.
Having said that, I would have to agree with much of the rest of this thread.