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It basically means that your computer has one large sized processor, but that processor is equally split into cores. In other words, if you just had a single core processor such as a Pentium 4, your computer would just be a 4 ghz pent 4 processor, which is awesome in is own right. But to give the computer a faster runtime processor speed, Intel or AMD, are both now splitting the large processors into 2, dividing them by 2 equal size cores, thus giving you the 2 GHZ Core 2 Duo, which also, if I am not mistaken, is using Centrino 2 duo processor technology, which is awesome. In simpler terms, don't worry, your system is awesome for gaming.

It's like two in one. While one side of the processor handles some files, the other side of the processor handles the other. This makes the processor run more smooth and efficiently. Because the tasks are shared instead of all the pressure being on one processor. You can always google intel core 2 duo if you want.. or i could be talking about dual core processors.. yeah you better google that..

The usual pentium processors can do only 1 micro proses at a time while Core 2 Duo can do 2 micro processes at a time. This means that Core 2 Duo is twice as fast as a usual processor. If you have a 2 Ghz Core 2 Duo processor it is equivalent to 4 Ghz of a pentium processor.

Yes, the processor is 2 in 1

Yes, Core2Duo means it has two processors in it, because of the "duo", while a Core2Solo has only one processor as it is called "solo".

And by processor, I mean processor "core", which you can think of as two processors glued together onto a single chip (in simple terms). So a dual-core processor has two discrete processing elements on a single piece of silicone, while a quad-core processor has four discrete processing elements on a single piece of silicone, even though it is one processor, it acts like 2 or 4.

It in theory can increase performance by about 95% (it will never actually get doubled due to overhead), but in practise you will almost never use any application that will push the processor that much. Video encoding excepted. Computer games are starting to use dual-core processors better however, and some games will make full use of both cores.

It's a single Physical Processor but it is 2 logical Processors. For all uses and purposes, it is 2 processors meaning that One processor will control threading of application processes and the other will assist the main core in calculations and computations.

Because a lot of today's applications don't really take advantage of Multi-Processors efficiently, multi-tasking is the only way to fully utilize all the cores.

If you are getting a system for gaming, A duo core is a better choice than a quad core and yes quad core is 4 logical processors.

It means that it has two cores in one processor. It is not necessarily twice as fast as software has to be written to take advantage of multi-core processors although the operating system can run two different processes simultaneously.

No, it's a single processor (because it only uses one socket) with 2 cores inside.

core duo is a dual-core processor

See the processor chart for details

http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/cha...

There are two cores on a single chip. So it's like have two processors, but it's only one physical chip.

yes it is basically a dual core processor