its bieng owned by a dual xeon rig with hyperthreading , which doesn't have 64 bit support .... imagine this processor almost halving its times soon as a 64 bit version of cinebench hits daylight !
Or imagine having 2 of these processors in one rig , for the same price as your dual Xeons .... true quad processing , or maybe 4 ! i'v seen a quad socket A64 board once .
point is , save up your pennies for one of these , or maybe whatever intel releases .
And just to whet your appetites, dual cores will fully replace single core processors in the 150-250 USD price range by 2006 , and quad core processors will be available for people with bigger budgets , all thanks to TSMC's 65 nanometre process .
Seeing as everything is moving to multicore , the question is not whether or not programmers will start makign multi threaded apps , but when .