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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU
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I'm going to assume that Dual Core is better (can't believe that they took 
a step back) ... but, is how does it rate?  I know that HyperThreading is 
definitely != Dual CPU ... but how close does Dual Core get?

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