[citation][nom]velocityg4[/nom]Given that anything better than a Core Duo or Athlon X2 with 2GB RAM will do just about anything 95%+ of users want and quickly. It is not surprising that sales remain slow. Heck a Pentium 4 and 1GB of RAM in XP is plenty for the majority of people.With Windows 8 being streamlined to work well on 1GB of RAM and an ARM or Atom CPU it does not bode well for the hardware industry.[/citation]
a p4 can barely run the internet anymore, till 2 years ago i was still using one, and anything flash spiked that thing to 100%
also, i want to wait till windows 8 till i reserve full judgement of bulldozer, granted im not in the market for a cpu yet, as my 955black will probably remain in my system till either the motherboard dies and i cant get a replacement that fits my 955, or something SHOCKINGLY fast comes about.
currently we are talking at most about 20-30% difference, and this in on operations that take less than a minute to complete. if the operations were more along the lines of an hour to encode music, or the like, than yea, i may go for a better cpu