Software will never catch up quad cores
@ 2007/11/21A senior executive at AMD was honest enough and told Fudzilla that they believe that Quad cores will be overkill for most mainstream applications from now to eternity. They expect that a normal mainstream user won’t really need a quad core in the next few years as there is not necessity for such processing power.
Win2000+Office2000 runs faster on older hardware than Vista+Office2007 on newest hardware