Well put. There will always be some applications (games, compilers, Photoshop, 3D rendering) that will benefit from fine-grained parallelism. For the rest, be

Well put. There will always be some applications (games, compilers, Photoshop, 3D rendering) that will benefit from fine-grained parallelism. For the rest, being able to run your web browser, DVD ripper, music streamer and IDE on four separate cores is good enough.