Here are the two articles http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896256/en-us And http://www.techbuilder.org/recipes/169500107 One talks about How XP can support dual core and mentions "(ACPI) processor performance states" And the other says XP home will not take full advantage due to Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) Of coarse XP home will run on Core duo but my understanding is "it is not capable of taking full advantage of both cores." Can somebody look at the two article and explain the differences between them. and most important why or why not XP home can take full advantage of dual core Thank you Jo