mikeymike mentionedymentioned:
...Being able to send twice the amount of data than before on virtually any bus is going to have a significant benefit (except of course all you ever use your system for is Solitaire!)
;-) That is why the market is almost saturated; most computer users have as much computer as they need. For e-mail, web surfing, keeping inventory and payroll for a business, etc., yesteryear's computers are perfectly adequate. Very few applications really need all the horsepower that they can get.
That’s why manufacturers encourage software developers to create games that use everything you can give them. The salesman’s first job is to make the customer dissatisfied with what he already has.