Given the evolution of things I find it hard to believe that the average user (not DC aware) needs this many cores. I mean, for the person that just uses the computer for the occasional browsing, emailing, or doing stuff on the office every now and then, is it really necessary that many cores? I think not even the hardcore gamers need this many cores for playing the latest games. And since the trend is to keep increasing the number of cores on every new generation of processors, I think most people will just be paying for unnecessary computing power on their new PCs. I guess in the past we always lived on the software-needs-better-hardware race, but now the roles have changed and the hardware is way ahead of the software's current needs.