Processor Questions

[kevin_smithers]

I have some questions that The CL frequenters may be able to help me with as your guys are the geekiest geeks I know

Is software written core dependant ! I mean if I get a new Laptop with a quad core Intel i7 is it going to be a waste of my money if the programs I use are written for use with a dual core and backwards?

Not knowing much about processors I made this mistake in the past when Adobe software did not take advantage of my dual core processor machine until the next update as it was such new tech.

I want to go and get a new MacBook Pro next week and do not want to waste a few hundred smackers on a quad core machine if only 10% of my software is going to work on it, I would rather get the dual core model and spend the extra few hundred bucks on upgrading my iPad.

I thought I had better add what software I use;

Adobe Dreamweaver
adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Lightroom
Apature
Office for Mac
Pages
Keynote
Beedocs Timeline 3D
Hype