Fascinating. I had no idea about any of this. I thought CPU cores just did things separately and had no idea they were interconnected like that.
Being poor and having computers that are kind of old because of it, but having multiple computers, I often use different ones for different tasks. If I'm writing on one of my two laptops, I will use the tablet (named Adramelech) to play music, for instance.
These days I don't use my bigger laptop (named Q) as much, because unless I leave it plugged in all the time, it tends to shut itself down when it reaches 50%, which is really weird because I'm fairly certain I bought it a new battery a few months ago.
What's worse, even when it's plugged in, if I give it too much to do, it tends to BSOD on me. And between those two issues, I prefer to use my smaller netbook (whose name I can't presently recall) for writing. It's older, I bought it used, and neither of its two OS's are worth much (XP being obsolete and no longer supported, and Zorin being a POS that never updates anymore for some reason), but it does writing and simple Internet stuff pretty well. Give it a YouTube video, though, and it has all kinds of fits. I had to give it a new battery too, because the one that came with it was a POS that ran out of juice after about an hour, but otherwise it's a fine little netbook.
Anyway, my final point was that I don't use Q very often anymore. I'm on it right now, but mainly because I needed to watch some videos, and it has a bigger screen and more USB ports than the netbook does. (The netbook only has 2!)
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Being poor and having computers that are kind of old because of it, but having multiple computers, I often use different ones for different tasks. If I'm writing on one of my two laptops, I will use the tablet (named Adramelech) to play music, for instance.
These days I don't use my bigger laptop (named Q) as much, because unless I leave it plugged in all the time, it tends to shut itself down when it reaches 50%, which is really weird because I'm fairly certain I bought it a new battery a few months ago.
What's worse, even when it's plugged in, if I give it too much to do, it tends to BSOD on me. And between those two issues, I prefer to use my smaller netbook (whose name I can't presently recall) for writing. It's older, I bought it used, and neither of its two OS's are worth much (XP being obsolete and no longer supported, and Zorin being a POS that never updates anymore for some reason), but it does writing and simple Internet stuff pretty well. Give it a YouTube video, though, and it has all kinds of fits. I had to give it a new battery too, because the one that came with it was a POS that ran out of juice after about an hour, but otherwise it's a fine little netbook.
Anyway, my final point was that I don't use Q very often anymore. I'm on it right now, but mainly because I needed to watch some videos, and it has a bigger screen and more USB ports than the netbook does. (The netbook only has 2!)
Thanks for the post!