First of all: It's DUO core not DUAL. Dual is old technology.


Anyway, get duo. Not quad. Quad is usually low processing speed per core unless you want to spend a TON of money. I'd suggest a duo with 3.0+ ghz processing per core. Mine is the 3.16ghz version of intels duo core. For around the same price I could have got the Quad 2.4ghz. That would have been dumb of me, though, because there are few programs today that utalize 2 cores, much less 4. And there won't be 4 for a long time. I'm still waiting for programs to catch up to me to use my 2 cores. If I could, I'd gladly trade my 3.16ghz duo for a 5ghz single core right now.

By the time 4 core technology is common in programs..they will have 8, 12, 16 something like that core processors and your 4 core you buy today will be worth jack squat.

So, anyone who has bought a quad core processor was a moron.