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What is duo core and quad core (in dell)? I saw the pricing for computers, and it looked like duo processors cost more than quad processors. Can someone help me? Also, what is a hard drive partition? Thank you for all your answers in advance.

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You won't have an advantage with a quad core processor unless you have software specifically written to take advantage of that feature. It's basically two or four microprocessors in one.

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Dells prices must me wonky cause quad cores usually cost more. The difference is the number of cores in the processor in the duo there are two cores which is kinda like having two processors in one, and the quad is like four processors in one, the more cores the more power. Hard drive partitions are when you turn 1 hardrive into two. This is done by splitting it in half and when ever it is connected to the computer it shows itself as two volumes. Hope this helps and see ya
A hard drive partition is when you divide a hard drive into many different sections with a "divider" to where each partition is considered its own hard drive.

You can instal windows 98 on one section %26 windows XP on another and Vista on another instead of having 3 hard drives to do the same
Ok this is how it works. A core 2 DUO processor is two CPU's or processors or "little computer brains" on one dye(thing that processors are on) A core 2 quad is a dye that has 4 processors on it. simple as that. A hard drive partition is pretty much a split in where your hard drive space goes for instance. On a 500gb hard drive 100gb partition might be for movies 100gb would be for back up of data and the other 300gb would be general purpose
duo core is a brand, i think its really called core2duo and its a dual core processor, a quad core... hence the name, means 4 cores in the processor. a hard drive partition is a section of the hard drive, you can have 1 partition, meaning the os, the whole hard drive and if you have 2 partitions, it means that your hard drive is divided in 2.