“Multicore processing allows control over many applications running on a single PC. AMD says 85 percent of PC users run six applications at once: antivirus, e-mail, firewall, spam protection, a pop-up blocker and spyware [protection/detection],” Ben Ames reports for IDG News Service.

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: AMD says 85 percent of PC users run six applications at once: antivirus, e-mail, firewall, spam protection, a pop-up blocker and spyware. Sheesh, that’s so pathetically stupid. Can you imagine?! It’s no wonder Apple has such a difficult time convincing the masses to Think Different™; most of the poor fools obviously aren’t capable of thinking at all.

Macintosh. Because life’s too short.

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