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Nastiness explained (sort of)

Nastiness explained (sort of)

Posted May 7, 2008 16:37 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Nastiness explained (sort of) by MisterIO
Parent article: Stable kernel updates (security fix)

However, nowadays even desktops tend to have multicore CPUs, so I think there are a lot more
SMP machines out there than 2-3 years ago...


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Nastiness explained (sort of)

Posted May 7, 2008 18:40 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Laptops are going multicore too. It's hard to buy a single-core laptop now, unless it's very low end.

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