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First of all I think that many people are still fine with single core Pentium 4 workstations and that what we have today is not that much better. For example the "death of the PC" was greatly exaggerated by the simple fact that people aren't upgrading so often because their 4-6 year old workstations are still good enough for most purposes.

Of course, many of us do need the extra power. But what Linus is saying and I agree with him, is that for mobile devices (phones, tablets, laptops), Moore's law doesn't work so well, as batteries aren't keeping up with Moore's law. A mobile device that doesn't last for 2 hours of screen-on usage is a completely useless mobile device (and here I'm including laptops as well).