[X4U] 2 vs 4 cores, iMac?

[Robert Ameeti]

Joe Sporleder <joe at wacondatrader.com> wrote:

>There are some nicely priced previous generation 
>27" iMacs on Apple's online store, refurbished 
>section (see below). Unless one is doing a ton 
>of video encoding, 3-D modeling, etc, will the 
>4-core iMacs offer much extra in performance?

The operating system will  also allocate a second 
core to a second application. One application may 
use 100% of 1 core while another application has 
full use of a second core. This happens 
regardless of the applications understanding of 
dual cores.
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