Dual core is a hardware feature. Not sure how being optified compensates for a slower processor. Seriously. Do you remember life BEFORE Titan? It sucked Big-TIME. Again, all fine and dandy, how long will that take. With the N900 performance and battery life was one of the main drivers for Titan and other optimizations. Innovation born out of frustration. Why not start with good hardware and save ourself the frustration? I'll pay more for a device if that means less frustration for the first year or so. You're saying there would be no difference between a single 1 Ghz process and a 1GHz dual core processor? Hmm.... I think there is. Except everyone keeps saying that all optimization problems will be addressed by the MeeGo collective and OVI Maps, one of the worst offenders on the N900 can only be addressed by Nokia and not anyone else. So if there is any chance OVI Maps for N950 will be as resource intensive as on the N900 then dual core would again be beneficial.