I believe we have lastly arrived at a point where a cheap middle variety multi-core CPU is just "fast sufficient" for 95% of the customers out there. It is more about litheness of the system and what you can plug into it that denotes many more to the standard person.

I concur with The Viper that a decade ago people did appear only at MHz and yeah it HAD to be Pentium. But a decade before processors were sluggish and more MHz completed a huge difference with all you did.