8 second boot times? That's only 2 seconds slower than my Commodore 64. </snark> On the less snarky side... I'm sure it's a better system, but just because a

8 second boot times? That's only 2 seconds slower than my Commodore 64. </snark> On the less snarky side... I'm sure it's a better system, but just because a core can run at 2.4GHz instead of 1.8Ghz, you have to take power dissipation into account. You have the same problem with overclocking: you can up the clock speed, but there's still only so much thermal energy you can remove from the packaging before you have to throttle the core to avoid melting the solder off the board or delaminating the PCB underneath the package. I'm sure the good people at Broadcom have taken this into account, I'm just commenting you can't just say "oh. it has a 33% faster clock, it's going to chunk 33% more data."