But those tools aren't really compute bound anyway - you're not buying a workstation to do them, you're getting a consumer laptop or a tablet.

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loeg 10 hours ago | parent [-]

And that consumer device should have ECC! That's the whole discussion here.

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zadikian 10 hours ago | parent [-]

It's confusing because a few comments up is "for the vast majority of people single core performance is all they care about, it's also cheaper" which is unrelated to ECC.

	▲	loeg 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think it's coherent -- it's an argument for why most people don't want to buy Workstation class products just to get ECC. (Prices scale with core count. Not linearly, but still.)