How company culture can affect people's vision

Today I saw bunch of engineers from an major desktop software company discussing how their desktop PC is being upgraded to quad-core.

I felt very amused, because I happened to be checking my team's infrastructure capacity. What I notice is that our average production server is 16 times faster than my desktop with 8 times more memory.
And the challenge my team faces is how to migrate our software across hosts without bringing down the service, not how fast any individual machine runs.
To be fair, the performance of an individual host still matters, but it's becoming less relevant when our software can be easily deployed to 100 hosts and scale up 100 times, without waiting for Intel or AMD to add more cores.

As I said some time ago, the failing of Moore's law has given CS people an exciting new frontier. If a company is not facing up to the new reality, its days are counted.