Brian Beesley wrote: > > Proprietary application licences will need to evolve before consumers > > will accept multicore systems.
Not at all. Consumers are already accepting and buying dual-core laptops, probably without even thinking about it. A dual-core machine is only marginally more expensive than a single-core. Migros-Electronics in Switzerland is currently offering a Fujitsu-Siemens dual-core laptop at SFr1299 - only a couple of months ago, I purchased two Lenovo Thinkpads at SFr1199 each. > > Try buying legal copies of e.g. Photoshop CS for Windows on a 8 or 16 > > core system and you'll see what I mean. Well, we're not quite there with the 8 or 16 core machines just yet, but the direction is quite clear. Is a dual-core license for Photoshop more expensive than a single-core - I don't know. But it won't stop the dual-core machines from selling. /Per Jessen, Zürich _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
