Mac Game store says I have 8 cores?

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So I have a quad core 15 inch macbook 2011, and when I was looking at a game on the mac game store, where it shows the minimum requirements and what you have, it says my computer has 8 cores, when it has 4! Why does it think I have 8 cores?
 
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If you have a certain family of i7 in your machine, you have 4 physical cores and 4 virtual cores. i5s on the other hand just have the 4 physical cores and i3s have two physical cores..
 
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This might be what the Mac Game store is relying on
This system also supports "Turbo Boost 2.0" -- which "automatically increases the speed of the active cores" to improve performance when needed (up to 3.3 GHz for this model) -- and "Hyper Threading" -- which allows the system to recognize eight total "cores" or "threads" (four real and four virtual).
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Beaten to the punch again
 
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Raz0rEdge said:
If you have a certain family of i7 in your machine, you have 4 physical cores and 4 virtual cores. i5s on the other hand just have the 4 physical cores and i3s have two physical cores..
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What do you mean by virtual cores?
 

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