[carbocation]

I think that most of us who are interested in high core counts are at least hobbyists. For example, I use Monte Carlo simulation to compute the pagerank vector for all of the biomedical literature on PubMed. 32 cores is either 32x faster than 1 core, or lets me improve the precision of my results. Sure, this isn't browsing the web, but it's also not a real research project or a business.