[nflug] Hardware questions

[Cyber Source]

I was looking at a new Dell machine for home, and a few of the specs 
made me wonder:

1) A dual-core processor is seen under Linux as two physical ones, correct?
2) Hyper-threading only works in Window$, correct?
3) is there any difference between these two video cards? Dell sees it 
as a $281 difference. I am not much of a gamer these days, and I just 
want something decent.

128MB PCIe x16 ATI FireGL V3100, Dual Monitor VGA or DVI/VGA Capable



128MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 1400, Dual Monitor DVI or VGA Capable


Thanks!

You should let us quote you, apple for apple, we beat Dell all the time 
and show you why.
1. Not sure.
2. You should be able to take advantage of hyper-threading with the boot 
time argument of acpi=ht.
3. Let me guess, the ATI is the more expensive? I would stick with the 
NVIDIA although I was impressed lately with the glx stuff ATI has 
FINALLY released but I am partial to NVIDIA, I just think NVIDIA kicks 
ATI's ass in performance (bang for the buck).
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