Nope, this has nothing to do with fuller hair neither something else you can wear on your head. The Parallel extensions are an easy to use upgrade to your .NET Framework enabling you to use the benefits of your Multi-Core System.

Recent mid range systems use 2.0 up to 3.0 GHz CPUs. The first 3.06 GHz PC in Germany (buyable for everyone) were sold at the end of November 2002. Two years before, in March 2000, the first PC with 1GHz to buy was released. Due to the cooling problematic the upper limit for CPU speed is locked to the magic edge of about 4GHz. New generations of processors since 2003 got more cache, changed in size (results in reduction of heat) or introduced more cores. >> more…