The average user seems to not understand the reason for ungrading to a newer computers with multiple cores. The intel commercials target the consumer by saying, 'dual core -do more' which is pretty vague at best. The vast majority of people still have a Pentium III, Celeron or a Pentium 4 at their office or at home.

The average user I would define as being your typical person working an 'office type job' that just drones about their daily tasks saving their 401k for retirement and possibly building trust funds for their kids. They get up and get the kids ready, head off to work in bumper to bumper traffic for 15-30min. They get to the office check their e-mail, chit chat a bit and see if they have any meetings or documents to type. Also, they really don't pay much attention to technology or technobable that they totally don't understand to begin with as it's just some meaningless background noise in their lives. They are machines designed for the purpose sort out relevant from non-relevant. They are the average 'worker bees' who might have attended a State University in a program such as law, sociology..etc or otherwise work a job similiar to marketing, book keeping..etc

In 2009 Intel supposely will introduce the Octo Core(8-cores). The problem I can see is that there is no 'killer App' designed to take advantage of a quad core much less an octo core. How can Intel keep up with the pace of technological develope without support from the majority of average people to buy these higher performance computers?

Distributed computing, gamers, game developers, scientific community, graphic artists,etc are all a limited amount of customers in the multipe core industry. Multiple cores doesn't make sense yet to most people. Yet, most people don't realize multiple cores are almost needed to eat up all the extra threads and processes running on todays operating systems like Vista Home Premium. I think they desperately need a bigger plan for multiple cores if they want to continue with Moore's Law and doubling processor power every two years.