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Core Duo Dell can dedicate one processor to virus scanning!
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Here's the story: http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=20345
I got a good laugh out of the first paragraph. Now you can play games on one processor while the other simultaneously runs a virus scan! 
Dell moved to solidify its position in the lucrative gaming market Tuesday by launching the XPS M1710, a dual-core processor machine designed to let gamers simultaneously play three-dimensional games while encoding music or scanning for viruses.
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Originally Posted by chabig
Huh? 
And here I thought Apple put Core Duo processors in Macs for productivity purposes. I guess Apple needs to encourage
more virus writers on the Mac platform so they can take full advantage of what the Core Duo chips have to offer. 
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One for games, one for pron. Good times ahead people. Good times.
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Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy
Huh?
And here I thought Apple put Core Duo processors in Macs for productivity purposes. I guess Apple needs to encourage
more virus writers on the Mac platform so they can take full advantage of what the Core Duo chips have to offer.
Love you sense of humor... 
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Originally Posted by JoshuaZ
One for games, one for pron. Good times ahead people. Good times.
I'm with ya man!!
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Originally Posted by faragbre967
I'm with ya man!!
Oddly, if they marked it this way, people would go for it.
Apple: Now with the new iTunes Porn store! Only $0.99 a BJ.
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Shame they can't do that with memory.
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Originally Posted by Millennium
Shame they can't do that with memory.
Do what?
Dedicate a portion of memory to scan for viruses? Or for the iTunes pr0n store?
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Originally Posted by Person Man
Do what?
Dedicate a portion of memory to scan for viruses? Or for the iTunes pr0n store?
Keep an extra store of memory on hand specifically for virus scanning. From my experience with Windows machines, the memory consumed by a virus scanner often has much more of an effect on performance than the CPU time does.
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That's a pretty pathetic selling point.
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Offering a unique design, Dell is offering design choices of Special Edition Formula Red or Metallic Black displays. To further customize the look, each Dell M1710 notebook features an illuminated XPS touchpad and adjustable 16-color perimeter lighting.
LOL, I guess it could have a cameo @ the next 'The Fast and The Furious' movie 
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Actually for a Dell that isn't half bad.
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Come to think of it, a PCI card dedicated to virus scanning might actually be pretty cool. Give it a small processor, a decent chunk of RAM, and enough firmware to store the scanning program and definition updates, and it could simply run in the background without ever having to affect your system's performance. You could probably do it for about the cost of a video card, or possibly even less; scanning doesn't require all that much processor power.
An embedded G3/400 with 64 megs of RAM and running Linux and ClamAV could probably handle the actual scanning tasks, with maybe 1gig of flash for storage. All you'd need after that would be a way to upload firmware and get the card access to your storage devices. Assuming a proper implementation, this could be made to run completely independent of the OS the machine was actually running. The only points when the two would need to interact would be to pass files to the card and to upload new firmware. The specs are far lower than most video cards both power-wise and heat-wise, and the software is all free.
It's a thought, anyway. Another idea might be to work this into an external hard drive enclosure, similar to those enclosures that automatically encrypt and decrypt data for you. Every time a file is written out to the disk, it is first scanned and scrubbed.
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Originally Posted by Millennium
Come to think of it, a PCI card dedicated to virus scanning might actually be pretty cool. Give it a small processor, a decent chunk of RAM, and enough firmware to store the scanning program and definition updates, and it could simply run in the background without ever having to affect your system's performance. You could probably do it for about the cost of a video card, or possibly even less; scanning doesn't require all that much processor power.
An embedded G3/400 with 64 megs of RAM and running Linux and ClamAV could probably handle the actual scanning tasks, with maybe 1gig of flash for storage. All you'd need after that would be a way to upload firmware and get the card access to your storage devices. Assuming a proper implementation, this could be made to run completely independent of the OS the machine was actually running. The only points when the two would need to interact would be to pass files to the card and to upload new firmware. The specs are far lower than most video cards both power-wise and heat-wise, and the software is all free.
It's a thought, anyway. Another idea might be to work this into an external hard drive enclosure, similar to those enclosures that automatically encrypt and decrypt data for you. Every time a file is written out to the disk, it is first scanned and scrubbed.
I can't think of a better way to get people to drop windows!
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