Good advice crash, I wouldn't even think about flashing a bios or firmware upgrades without the computer hooked up to a power backup device, seen way too many boards rendered useless, by power surges or system reboots, and then there's the issue of accidentally flashing with the wrong revision.

A top of the range single core unit with adequate ram should more than do the job until the new technology and software is thoroughly patched.

And they want to release quad core to the market here shortly :(

And to think my first computer was a Tandy CoCo which was 4K......repeat 4K
Phew !.........manc