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When pushed to tell us where its missing 'Yorkfield' wonder chips are, Intel's spin staff told us to "check our favorite e-tailer." W did, probing a number of stores, and found nothing but more delay notices. Last month, a couple of hacks noticed that the quad-core Yorkfield chips were missing. At that time, Intel vowed that …

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  1. Les Matthew

    Pork Pies and chips

    Love it. ;)

    Apart from bragging rights, is there any point in having quad cores on desktops?

    I have a couple of dual core boxes here and the only thing that appears to actually use both cores fully is the folding@home smp client.

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  2. Jared Earle
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    @Les

    Quad Core on the desktop? That depends on what you use your desktop for. Your average Wanking-and-Banking users don't need quad cores, obviously, but some of us will use whatever CPU you give us for VisualHub, Handbrake, Virtual Machines, etc. The more the merrier!

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Future lawsuit from AMD in the making

    Are they tearing a page out of AMD's book on how not to release new chips...

    and yes, four cores is worth it just for cutting the video rendering that I do

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  4. Matt Bryant Silver badge
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    Luv it!

    "Porkies" - class!

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  5. Les Matthew

    @Jared

    Point taken. ;)

    In my defence, when I see desktop I think home users and general office work, what you describe I think workstation.

    Wankers and Bankers? I'm having trouble seeing a difference between those two at this moment in time. ;)

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