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Yeah? So What?

The chip race is heating up these days, and the players, Intel & AMD, are in the thick of it.
With the release of Intel’s QuadCore chips (Tom’s Hardware review here), more than a few overweight light-deprived geeks are sweating with eager anticipation (or actually walking up a flight of stairs…who knows?).
My take? Great, a faster super-expensive chip that will produce a speed only noticeable by the most introverted autistic savants. Will it make IE crash faster? Will Thunderbird deliver my spam faster? Who cares? The upside to all of this is that the price of the quad-cores will make the Core2Duo price drop like a baby under Britney Spears’ watchful eye. As soon as the E6600 is in the mid-$200 range, it will be a great value for Joe PCUser. Think about it. Most of the applications that would benefit from 4 cores haven’t been updated to utilize all that new horsepower, so unless your running some 4000 machine beowulf cluster, don’t worry, be happy. The Core2Duo will speed things up quite nicely if, like me, you are still running a caveman-like AMD64 3400+.

I’m not exactly writing new gospel here, but I just don’t think that all the media hype is worth it. I write this to you from my Texas Instruments TI99-4A to prove my point.

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