Yes, there is a huge power advantage to parallel cores. This is definitely worth reading for some background on why Apple is doing what they are doing: http://

Yes, there is a huge power advantage to parallel cores. This is definitely worth reading for some background on why Apple is doing what they are doing: http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/2010/02/parallel-power-law.html http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/2010/02/parallel-power-... The comments on it are also really good.