Intel's been milking this expensive quad core processor market for quite a few years, since at least 2006. Their upper mainstream product has no more than 4 cores and 8 threads. Surely they could offer a 6 core processor for the price of a 4770k. They just don't want to because they don't have to.

Its just kind of annoying for people with important work to use those cores for. If we could still get a desktop with quite a bit more power than a laptop, more people would buy desktops. So Intel is to blame at least partly for the decline in desktop sales, along with Microsoft and Windows 8.

Sorry didn't mean to be a Debby Downer, just had to vent a bit.