Originally Posted by
nkedel
To a lesser extent, the same is true for hyperthreading ("virtual cores"; dual core i3/i5/i7 have 4, most quad-core i5/i7 have 8)... for those whose experience with this was in the underwhelming form it took back in the Pentium 4 days, it's worth revisiting.
Good point. It's a huge difference now for computation-intense programs. I make regular use of Photoshop and Premiere, as well as Adobe Audition for sound recording, editing and mixing. All of these programs have to render their output and the difference running on quad-core machines, versus single-core, is beyond dramatic.