Lontronics Mailinglist account wrote:

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> I am a little shocked there are so many serious issues with the dual core processors.

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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.

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> 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....

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> Jan