Well.....that makes my decision about the new machine :) I'm just a hobby user, so I doubt I will ever encounter some of issues you're talking about Blur014 :) But I certainly don't want to buy a brand new machine only to find out that I went from a "sort of slow" machine to a "reallllyyyyy slooooooooowwwww" one! :) I'll just wait until the hyperthreading can be used correctly.