What an incredibly racist an culturally insensitive thing to say.

It has never passed before. It will not pass now.

There's an alternative to multi-threading. Will we see MPI used in more than just supercomputing applications? The message-passing vs. shared memory arguments are as old as the hills in high-end computing, with most (but not all) applications using message passing. As the memory hierarchy on personal computers looks more and more like NUMA, message passing starts to look really attractive, even when the parallelism is across a single node.

I will also ring in here to say that the X31 was an awesome laptop. I used an external DVD rather than lug the base around with me, and used the extended battery on the bottom.

The T40 series are also pretty nifty with the extended battery and the ultraslimbay battery as well.