@ GoThr3k
Did you skip this part or did Anand revise it?

Yet, even if performance was the same or slightly less per core, Nehalem ends up being faster due to other improvements. Most apps are Dual Core and WinXP and up uses Dual Core as well. At a minimum, one core runs the OS while another would run a single thread.
To the other guy, this does sound or read like the same comments during 2006 when C2D was tested by this same person, WOW! After over two years, you'd think they'd learn something by Now.
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