My new Core-i7 development laptop (an HP dv6t with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB high-speed drive) arrived on the day before yesterday. I have just completed setting it up the way I like, and am putting it through its paces.

I am really excited about putting much of my multi-threaded code (especially the code analysis code-base) through its paces. This laptop does have eight logical cores (organized as four physical cores, each of which is split into two logical cores). So far, I have been using a Core2 Duo based development laptop, which meant that I could not perform real tests on scalability, and the ability to utilize additional cores, in my multi-threaded code. With 8 cores, I think i will be able to tune my multi-threaded code with an eye to making it as finely parallel as possible.

Watch this space.