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- Taking a look at what the computer industry has to offer
From the first 8086 processor and up to the Core 2 Duo, there has been a significant increase in computer raw power and computing capabilities, but just how much does a regular person use the computer and for what purposes?

Even the most basic home appliances now use an integrated chip programmed to do a certain task. And computers, well, in this domain we have evolved quite a bit, all the software programs that have been developed can ease your work, and of course they have hardware requirements. So, assuming you work in an office environment, you handle e-mails,spreadsheets, documents, the Internet, probably even a messaging system… Does your computer need to be an Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700, with 4GB of RAM and two 750GB hard drives in RAID 0, with an NVIDIA 8800GTX video card and so on?

The first answer for this would be that software and game designers are developing products for multiple cored processors; it's the way of the future. Frankly, there is much promise and little action on this, and I'm not talking about a couple of stray examples, but I'd like to see a massive move towards this new concept, and it just isn't happening, not on such a high scale as it was expected.