Sharing the load between multiple cores, as it's known, is a smart way to curb battery drain.

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It is ready for storing and sharing digital media with a large 250GB(1) hard drive and a convenient slot-load 8x DVD Super-Multi Double Layer DVD-RW with DVD-RAM.

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