Lontronics Mailinglist account wrote:
I am a little shocked there are so many serious issues with the dual core processors.
when competition is involved companies develop products as quickly as they can to keep up with the joneses. if your product(s) lack the bells and whistles the competition has, joey bagoconsumer will not buy your stuff b/c he's been successfully brainwashed into thinking feature X will make his life better. for an average computer user multicore processing doesn't do a whole lot besides compensate for slugware-driven OSes that are built like amUrican cars, whose primary purpose is to build product dependency and require replacement 4-5 years down the road. same lesson henry ford learned with the model t applies to large-scale hardware manufacturing.
you make more money if your widgets break because your new widget is vastly improved. new packaging, same great defects!
cheers, jake
Though, I do have a laptop with a duo core, running OBSD without any problems. What I will say; it is shocking, but for normal usage, most users will never notice these issues. What will not mean that I will ask the next time before I buy another computer.... Jan
