All interesting, but if we're talking about typical laptop/desktop users, beside the point, I think. The reality is that the entire computer's performance is not the bottleneck, for most of what a typical user is doing, most of the time. The limitation on performance is either: 1) in the user's head (e.g. a word processor and an author) 2) in the network the computer is attached to (much of what is done on the web) Getting faster/better performance out of your laptop/desktop won't help any, for the reason that your computer's performance is already not the limiting factor, for most of what a typical user is doing. Although, this does reinforce the point that adding even more cores to a typical user's laptop/desktop, isn't really accomplishing much, but for much simpler reasons than the issues discussed in the article.