[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

and a new category of microprocessor that combines a general purpose CPU with an accelerator designed for specific market segments.

[Crazieman]

*drools idly*

[eeman]

Three questions from somebody who knows enough to sound intelligent at a cocktail party (and after a minimum of two cocktails): 1. I know there are quad core chips out there but are there any end user applications for them, or are they just used for servers, etc.

2. Will quad core or Octal core make any difference if we are using a 32 bit operating system? In other words, will I/we need to upgrade to Vista x 64 at some point?

3. Intuitively, it seem like the complexity of writing code for multiple core chips would increase geometrically, since you have to have all the cores processing simultaneously. Is this true?

Thank you.

[ShadowAce]