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		stephencanon on April 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming Right, because “number of cores” is an honest way to compare processors (and why does the customer even care about the processor?).

matwood on April 23, 2014 [–]

It is called marketing. Cores do not matter, until they do for marketing reasons. See recent Apple keynotes.

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