Windows 7 blinks to multi-core

While Windows 7 gets prepared for its first public release at the PDC at the end of October, rumors talk about it more and more and a clear revolution is rising, starting from the inside but that keeps a back-compatibility with Windows Vista for drivers and applications.

CPU technological evolution push toward the advanced multi-core direction, that will result in 32 simultaneous cores, a little too much for the home based operations that are targeted by Windows 7. The new Microsoft OS will have to support always more cores and to do that it needs an "inner revolution". […]

Complete article here.

My opinion: it’s the very right moment to buy a quad core, now they cost really a little, compared to the features they offer (I suggest the new Q9xxx series, eg.: Q9450, Q9550, Q9650, bades on Penryn: 12 MB L2 cache, 1333 fsb, 45 nm).

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