{"id":377,"date":"2006-08-02T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T12:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/08\/02\/one-pc-two-brains\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T12:52:18","slug":"one-pc-two-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/08\/02\/one-pc-two-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"One PC, Two Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Think that dual-core PCs are too pricey? We lab-tested six economical desktops that deliver plenty of power.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve <strong>yearned <\/strong>for a <strong>dual-core desktop system<\/strong> but have held off buying one because you were <strong>deterred by high prices,<\/strong> now is the time to take the plunge. The cost of dual-core processors from <strong>AMD and Intel has dropped <\/strong>significantly since they debuted last year, and a good selection of affordable dual-core PCs is currently available. You can shell out <strong>less than $1500<\/strong> and walk away with a robust and powerful system&#8211;including a <strong>monitor<\/strong>&#8211;that&#8217;s ready to take on both <strong>multitasking <\/strong>and <strong>multithreaded <\/strong>applications.<\/p>\n<p>A dual-core machine has <strong>two computing cores in one processor package<\/strong>, which allows the system to efficiently work on more than one task at a time. Dual-core processors also boost the performance of <strong>multithreaded software<\/strong>, though <em>relatively few applications are written this way<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/126140-1\/article.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think that dual-core PCs are too pricey? We lab-tested six economical desktops that deliver plenty of power. If you&#8217;ve yearned for a dual-core desktop system but have held off buying one because you were deterred by high prices, now is the time to take the plunge. The cost of dual-core processors from AMD and Intel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}