Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Here is a great quote from CNet about Dell's new Win2k pro workstations:

Dell is leading the movement among PC makers to two processor systems in part due to Windows 2000 Professional's need for more robust hardware to achieve the same performance as Windows NT. The PC maker also realizes Windows 2000 makes fuller use of two processors than does Windows NT, said Steve Yon, Dell's director of OptiPlex marketing. Other PC makers are expected to follow Dell's lead. A study conducted by Danville, Calif.-based Competitive Systems Analysis (CSA) concluded that to achieve application performance on par with Windows NT, many companies moving to Windows 2000 will need a processor upgrade equivalent to a 15 percent to 20 percent performance boost. Microsoft lists the minimum Windows 2000 Professional system requirements as a 133-MHz Pentium processor and 64 MB of RAM.