I'd like to have 4096 of them. Well, not really - even if the computer was free, I couldn't pay for the electricity to run it. Of course the hardware isn't free. We all want the best computer that makes sense for us, everybody hates "Please twiddle your thumbs while Word loads".

On the other hand, whether you use those cores or not depends on a lot of things. How hard you're hitting your computer, for one. What types of workload it runs. What particular software you use, and how well it's broken into threads.

I read a great article on the subject, responding to an article about multi cores being hype. It goes over the pros and cons, but it's written by an experimental computer programmer. Interesting stuff, if, like me, you're a geek extraordinaire.

http://www.thinkingparallel.com/2007...lution-a-hype/

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Computer industry ftw. For now, i think my dual core proc needs more power. Since quad or 8 cores are still yet to be utilized by common softwares'.

In my humble opinion, 2 Cores of proccessor is good for Home and Multimedia computer. 4 and more cores are good for work and gaming computers, aren't they?

im using core 2 1.8ghz and 1.5gig of ram...but still im not satisfied with the performance...when opening more that 2-3 application may my sounds in the media player stutters....what do think is the best spec or way to configure this..?