On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ben Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought the N270 chip was merely "hyper-threaded" IIRC, > and not actually having two ores: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocessors > http://www.intel.com/products/processor/atom/techdocs.htm >
It's a matter of semantics. I'm a software and protocols guy so if the OS sees two cores, it's a dual core as far as I'm concerned. On the hardware level it's a bit murkier than you might think, each logical core has hardware registers and cache that are exclusive to them. But it's a multi-moot point since for most of the things a netbook is useful for, faster and more parallel processing cores just means the CPU is waiting faster ;-) _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
