Aye, this is the new rebirth of computers for sure.
Playstation 3 has 8 x cores! You seen the trailer/previews for various games? fuk me, it's getting so life-like. The realtime physics capabilities are awesome. A far cry from my commodore 64, buahah, 20yrs ago
The funny thing is that, if you look, the Core Duo's are embedded onto a piece of silicon that looks as though it was made for quad-cores. It's half empty - only two quarters are used (ie. one for each of the two cores, currently). So it looks like dual-core is merely a transitional phase to maximise revenue before quad cores, as you mention, will debut just around the corner.
Am happy with my single-core pentium M at the moment, but will likely be looking into the first quad-core pentium Ms when they come out in, say, a year or twos time, by which time both 64-bit support and Vista should be very mature.
If I didn't already have a laptop. the 64-bit dual core Pentium Ms look like the absolute cat's whiskers. Me0w baby!
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PS > And another thing! Will the Ti|3 have user customisable/importable wavetables?  A ribbon-controller or XY-Pad might be nice, too, please! Thanks!
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