Bulldozers first screens

[-Boris-]

The term "usage model" generally defines the main type of applications most of the users run. If 90% of people use the PC for watching youtube videos, 40% to play games and 0.2% run on 3DStudioMAX and Sony Vegas at the same time (made up figures), the weight of multitasking performance in the usage model will be almost zero; Intel Clarkdale is the perfect example for this, while it wasn't fast not even at launch and it sucked in heavy multithreading (memory performance was bad), it was a great solution for the mainstream market because it focused on multimedia content and poorly threaded apps so it sold very well even though it was fighting the best AMD platform in the last 5 years.

Sure, some users need more than that, but that's why there are niche markets and products. For a CPU/platform to be a success, it needs to shine in the bulk applications the users will run, not to hunt rare scenarios where it beats the competition just to claim a victory.

Bulldozer isn't made for people who are playing flash games and are watching youtube. Llano is aimed for them. Bulldozer is made for people who actually pushes their computer a bit. And you seem to be talking about the sales of the product. At this forum we don't care to much about sales, we care about perforamnce. Of course sales might be nice if we are wishing a company well, but it's hardly our main interests right?

Do YOU want a computer capable of more than Youtube and a few tabs at the same time?
Personally I run a minecraft server, have tons of browser windows with even more tabs, might be doing some multithredaded calculations that can take days, and maybe want to play GTA IV once in a while. I bring my quadcore to its knees on a daily basis.

EDIT: Can you name a few single threaded programs where you suspect Bulldozer to be to slow for the average users you are talking about? I don't know if there are any commonly used single threaded programs left where performance in modern CPUs actually makes a difference anymore. Theoretical but unnoticeable differences in Microsoft Office isn't really a deal breaker.