Intel brings forward Nehalem Launch

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http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/...-e4x00-p1.html

His software list is pretty well representative of both professional an non-professional applications available today.

Gen-2 games of course are not, but the majority of contemporary games are. Multicore processors have been out > 3 years now.

A month or two ago I was also when someone said that same thing, then when I went out and actually looked... it's true, about 1/2 of what you can find is multithreaded (excluding the sharecrapware) and there is a multithreaded app available for most all catagories of usages you can find.

Video encoding -- yep.
NLE -- Yep
Photography -- yep
Games -- yep
compression -- yep

Software has done a more to catch up that what we realize.

On the single threaded material... it will vary, but you will be shocked when the numbers come out I suspect. What is more shocking, and make note of this ... it will be hard to find more single threaded benchmark data since there will be much much less of it when the reviews come.

And you say that this list is representative?

How about office programs?
How about internet programs?
How about desktop management programs?
How about shell extensions?
How about tiny tools that do simple jobs?
How about media players and managers?
How about system management programs?

On the list you get mostly professional tools + games + archivers. Usually costly ones.
BTW on my computer I have 2 programs from the list. 1 is multithreaded. And used it like 2 times during ~year since I installed it.