I believe the reason the industry went with multi-core chips is because they hit a wall (so to speak) with the actual transistor counts per chip. I would wager

I believe the reason the industry went with multi-core chips is because they hit a wall (so to speak) with the actual transistor counts per chip. I would wager a guess that most people have CPUs that are over-powered for their needs. I'm not saying researching and improvement is a waste of time, just that for 95% of the people, buying bleeding edge computers is a waste of money.