Over at Extreme Tech they have the first test results of the Intel dual core chips. I will say, for all the hype they have received, I was less than impressed. I'm not sure a chip is really faster if we have to rewrite the code.
"What is clear is that for certain application mixes, and certain usage models, dual core CPUs are substantially better. And that advantage will increase over time, as operating system schedulers get smarter and the use of multithreading in applications increases. The dual-core advantage won't be felt only in computer-intensive apps, but increasingly in our everyday computing lives, and perhaps the dream of systems that are responsive to our needs all of the time will be realized"
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