Which CPUs do you love or hate

[koshman]

@ Fanscale: Pentium M/Pentium D - these two CPUs together??? You've got to be kidding...

[koshman]

It's funny. It seems most members of the Amiga community do not like Intel CPUs including the modern ones not surprising, just a bit silly.... maybe...

[koshman]

@ Karlos: you won't find much logic when Amigans start bashing "competing" platforms

[koshman]

I take it that top reports every thread as a separate CPU? an octocore, nice

[koshman]

Actually when I first started using multi core CPUs I didn't think it was a quantum leap compared to single core (I don't use multithreaded apps often). It was when I was forced to go back to single core a month ago when I really felt the difference. Even when doing simple tasks such as web browsing or burning a DVD the computer can become unresponsive and generally not pleasant to work with. Funny thing that before I first got a dual core CPU I had never noticed that

[koshman]

Single core CPUs were never a good idea, especially when we started to demand multitasking...

Well, who could know that we would need multi cores some day when some people said 640KB is enough RAM anyone could ever need

[koshman]

What are the advantages of a single core? Other than power consumption and price. When we have multi cores with totally independent cores, which can be completely turned off and on as needed (is it already possible?) the power consumption also won't be an issue.

[koshman]

@ JJ: In what context? I'm sure SOMEBODY said it, I'm not saying it was Bill. Actually, he is/was quite the visionary and it doesn't sound like something he would say at all and I'm not attributing the line to him.