A few days ago a journalist friend took home a quad core gaming PC from ACER for testing. Quad core you say? Isn't that too advanced? Apple just unveiled the latest line of MacBook Core 2's and now we're already talking about Quad core chips?
The defining characteristic of dual-core systems is that they're actually there—they respond instantly. They never need to say, "Just a minute while I finish this other task." When one processing core is busy, the other can respond to your keystroke or mouse movement. And while you're not doing anything, both cores are busy doing all those fiddly little things that computers do when they think we're not looking.
ExtremeTech takes a look at why you would - or would not need a quad core processor for your work. One of the best ways to put it would be to illustrate how a Core 2 and a Core Solo would heat up - since they both occupy the same space, the heat distribution would be better for the one with more Cores, thus allowing for more efficient division of labor.
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