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will the iMac dual core 3.33 suffice?
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1156125" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>I'm glad you brought this up. The whole topic of "hyper-threading & turbo-boost" with the new "i" series of cpu's Apple is using can be pretty confusing...especially when it come to the quad-core i5 processor setups. Give the articles I've linked below a read...you'll see that not all of the i5 quad-core setups support hyper-threading:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20011862-64.html" target="_blank">The new muscle inside the new iMac, Mac Pro | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News</a></p><p><a href="http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/586734/review/215inch_core_i3_imac306ghz.html" target="_blank">Apple 21.5-inch Core i3 iMac/3.06GHz Review | Macworld</a></p><p><a href="http://www.barefeats.com/imac10v.html" target="_blank">2010 iMacs compared - Core i3 v i5 v i7</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/586737/review/27inch_core_i5_imac28ghz_quadcore.html" target="_blank">Apple 27-inch Core i5 iMac/2.8GHz (quad-core) Review - PCWorld</a></p><p></p><p>HTH,</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1156125, member: 56379"] I'm glad you brought this up. The whole topic of "hyper-threading & turbo-boost" with the new "i" series of cpu's Apple is using can be pretty confusing...especially when it come to the quad-core i5 processor setups. Give the articles I've linked below a read...you'll see that not all of the i5 quad-core setups support hyper-threading: [url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20011862-64.html]The new muscle inside the new iMac, Mac Pro | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News[/url] [url=http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/586734/review/215inch_core_i3_imac306ghz.html]Apple 21.5-inch Core i3 iMac/3.06GHz Review | Macworld[/url] [url=http://www.barefeats.com/imac10v.html]2010 iMacs compared - Core i3 v i5 v i7[/url] [url=http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/586737/review/27inch_core_i5_imac28ghz_quadcore.html]Apple 27-inch Core i5 iMac/2.8GHz (quad-core) Review - PCWorld[/url] HTH, - Nick [/QUOTE]
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