I think they're pointing out that many of the bottlenecks that make computers feel slow can't be fixed by throwing more cores at them—multithreading can be tricky
You could have 128 cores, 4TB of memory, multiple top-end NVMe drives and Windows will still lock up when accessing an offline network share.
Good job Microsoft.
I had that issue with OS X 10.11 and disconnecting my Thunderbolt NIC without umounting cleanly.
Argh
you can solve that by ticking a checkmark in `Folder Options` that puts folders in separate processes