I don't see myself owning one anytime soon given the financial crisis and that I am very happy with quad core from 2007.
However, I was thinking the other day how I would best use BPM and an I7 Core.
I think I would do the following. Since an I7 is really a four processor chip with HT, I would bind affinity exactly the same as I am doing on my quad core. However, instead of assigning things to a single processor, I would assign all the same things to a pair of processors that actually resolve to the same physical processor. Thus, I would maintain the same macro level balancing structure that I desire. However, by using pairs, I would derive a potential 15% performance boost when two assigned applications had maxed the CPU at 100%.
Bill, what do you think? Is that the most sensible way to use BPM and an I7? Just curious to hear your thoughts. Thanks.