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Seeing 4 Cores on i5 MBA

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claughery

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Hey... Just upgraded MBA yesterday to i5 from c2d. I am noticing 4 cores in the activity monitor.... Am I seeing correctly? Why is this???
 

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Hellhammer

Hellhammer

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Two cores + Hyper-Threading = Each core can process up to two threads simultaneously = Four threads in Activity Monitor
 
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maclook

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Nov 2, 2008
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I didn't know about that either until I observed my MBA converting a 720p video with Handbrake about 1/3 faster than my two year old iMac.

Tech is quite amazing and so is the MBA :D
 
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