Most applications can't benefit from a parallelism on more than 4-8 cores. But since the vast majority of people do not run one or two applications per compute

Most applications can't benefit from a parallelism on more than 4-8 cores. But since the vast majority of people do not run one or two applications per computer, that doesn't matter that much. I'll go out on a limb and predict that the day is coming when no one ever closes an application. Actually, my parents are already there on their Mac Mini -- they only close windows, never applications, until a software update requires a reboot.