Warp wrote:
>   Does the average computer user both own a photo editing software which
> supports multithreading and use it to its full extent?

I dunno. Who is an average programmer? :-)  If you do a "sharpen" or 
something and it's written to use multiple threads to do so, you'll use all 
the cores.

>   Niche market, i'd say. 

Sure. Almost everything in computers is a niche market in some sense. :-)

> Even those who do video encoding could probably
> do it just as well with a dual-core or even a single-core.

Of course. Just not as fast. Everyone who downloads videos in the first 
place could do it over dialup, too. (Except these are my own videos I'm 
transcoding, of course)

>> Background stuff like virus scans while 
>> you're trying to get actual work done. :-)
> 
>   Virus scanners mostly stress disk I/O,

Sure. I just meant like other background stuff one tends to accumulate.

>   You are a power user, not an average user. And even you admit that you
> seldom need even three cores. More is just a waste.

Agreed. I was just giving samples of why one might want more cores that you 
might not have thought of.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Understanding the structure of the universe
    via religion is like understanding the
     structure of computers via Tron.

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