Comment Re:Why? Why not? Probably not. (Score 1) 324
"People were bitching about games being monochrome saying that 16 color monitors were pointless back in the day."
Did not happen in my neighborhood, still own the nostalgic original monochrome PC. Less than 256 colors sucked, and 16bit color was a breath of fresh air.
"16 core CPUs just means anything less will eventually become the bargain basement processors."
Quads available Aug 2008 from intel. Dual core is there bargain basement processors today. Extrapolating on your statment (there is a lot of wiggle room in 'once software companies...'). So 9 years from now the Quad core will be the low end and 18 to 36 years from now the 16 core will be the bargain basement CPU.