News.com bericht dat Dell vandaag een business PC met twee PIII procs heeft onthuld. Tot op heden werden dergelijke configuraties vooral verkocht in het high-end workstation en server segment. Dell denkt met de komst van Windows 2000 ook het typemiepen-volk met een dual Pentium III te mogen verblijden. Uit een onderzoek van CSA is gebleken dat 2000 duidelijk efficiënter gebruik maakt van multi-processing dan Windows NT:
Dell is leading the movement among PC makers to two processor systems in part due to Windows 2000 Professional's need for more robust hardware to achieve the same performance as Windows NT. The PC maker also realizes Windows 2000 makes fuller use of two processors than does Windows NT, said Steve Yon, Dell's director of OptiPlex marketing. Other PC makers are expected to follow Dell's lead.[...] That extra performance could come from taking advantage of Windows 2000's improved support for multiple processors. CSA found the introduction of a second processor improved system performance by 21 percent. By contrast, a second processor had negligible impact on Windows NT performance.
Typically under Windows NT, only software programs written specifically to take advantage of a second processor, such as Adobe Photoshop, demonstrated any performance gains over one processor.
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