The researchers say there may be a hidden cost, and that someone might excel at multi-tasking at the expense of other information processing.

研究人员称这可能存在隐藏的成本，比如有些人善于同时处理多种任务但是这会削弱对其他信息的处理能力。

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Most ordinary people don't run demanding desktop applications, unless they're into video processing or gaming, and they don't actually do much multi-tasking so an Atom is often good enough.

大多数普通用户不会运行那些大量消耗资源的桌面应用，除非是在做视频处理或玩游戏，而且也不会做大量的任务切换，所以Atom多数情况下足以胜任。

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