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Originally Posted by rraod
why not eReaders coming out with multiple processors? At least dual processor to process the library in the background while we read books.
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Don't really need dual processors for that... a single processor is perfectly capable of running tasks in the background, and the OS can give such background tasks a lower priority so when your book reading has work to do (render the next page) it would get first dibs at the CPU.
Library update blocking you from doing anything else, is the developers decision unrelated to hardware.
Also no matter how fast you make the processor, the eInk display is still slow so it's not like you'd get "smoother scrolling" or anything because of it. Slow page turns are mainly due to programming (next page already pre-rendered or not) better CPU does not automatically solve such things.
Sooner or later it will come I guess, since single core processors seem to be a dying species...