Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th Jun 2007 18:37 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Theo de Raadt wrote about the Intel Core 2 Duo chip: "Various developers are busy implementing workarounds for serious bugs in Intel's Core 2 cpu. These processors are buggy as hell, and some of these bugs don't just cause development/debugging problems, but will assuredly be exploitable from userland code." Intel has given a response to the concerns as well.
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2007-01-18
I believe the reason for dual cores was because they were hitting a ceiling on clock speeds and heat dissipation. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
However dual cores don't double your speed. The only way a dual core will offer you any performance boost is in running multiple application and/or running applications that can take advantage of multiple cores/processors.
Only you can really answer your question. If you have application than can take advantage of multiple cores or you run with a lot of programs running then yes dual cores will make a difference.