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   From: randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net   
      
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   znu@fake.invalid says...   
   > Dual core will matter to the markets targeted by Xserves and G5 towers.   
      
   People with a dual-processor box like a G5 tower don't need dual core   
   at all, unless you think that multithreaded apps on the G5 are so   
   slow they need 4 CPUs to get there.   
      
   Sure, nice to have, not that big of a deal.  More important in the   
   single-socket desktop and notebook market, along with blades and   
   rack-mount low profile servers.   
      
   > As far as the battle for consumer processors, that's already over, and   
   > everybody won.   
      
   I understand what you're getting at, but I have a sneaky suspicion   
   that Intel and AMD have a different opinion on the matter.   
      
   > In the consumer market, everything currently on the market is more than   
   > fast enough,   
      
   Hence Longhorn.  That'll solve that problem.  :-)   
      
   You do realize that Windows is the primary delivery vehicle for   
   technologies to help spurn new hardware sales (read as: "slow   
   the damn thing down so people will upgrade"), right?   
      
   > at least for everyone except high-end gamers (and they should really   
   > care more about what's happening with GPUs than CPUs).   
      
   Probably, but gamers will always be out there with their hair on   
   fire, liquid cooled stuff, neon-colored fans and black lights,   
   and more pimples than a 16-yr-old Krimpy Kreme taste tester.   
      
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