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Apple Computing Products:
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Two processor alternatives on 27 in. iMac
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<blockquote data-quote="trademark" data-source="post: 1084060" data-attributes="member: 30066"><p>The main difference would be the hyperthreading. (The computer will recognize the cpu to have 8 cores instead of just 4) Currently the biggest difference you'd see between the two would be live video editing and encoding, which fully tax the cpu (including hyper-threading)</p><p></p><p>There's a decent amount of features in the adobe creative suites that utilize hyper threading, but not enough to justify its use. However if you're buying an iMac, you're not buying it for its performance now, you're buying it for its performance for 3-5 years down the line. Given that time, the hyper-threading will future-proof your computer even further.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trademark, post: 1084060, member: 30066"] The main difference would be the hyperthreading. (The computer will recognize the cpu to have 8 cores instead of just 4) Currently the biggest difference you'd see between the two would be live video editing and encoding, which fully tax the cpu (including hyper-threading) There's a decent amount of features in the adobe creative suites that utilize hyper threading, but not enough to justify its use. However if you're buying an iMac, you're not buying it for its performance now, you're buying it for its performance for 3-5 years down the line. Given that time, the hyper-threading will future-proof your computer even further. [/QUOTE]
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