Intel Is Launching An Interesting Bay Trail NUC Next Week

[Morpheus]

Wait for the price. Then you will be able to call it shitty if it's more expensive than dual-core ARM boards.

[widardd]

This seems pretty shitty.

Only single-core? Mobile ARM chipsets used in smartphones are quad-core and octo-core while still passively cooled.

What scenario for a device like this would benefit from slower multiple threads compared to a single, faster thread?

[uid313]

What scenario for a device like this would benefit from slower multiple threads compared to a single, faster thread?

Running a multithreaded daemon to handle simultaneous client connections?
Such as a web server or a FTP, Git, IRC, XMPP server.

[liam]

What scenario for a device like this would benefit from slower multiple threads compared to a single, faster thread?

Are the cortex a15/krait400 slower than this?