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Question for Guru Bob...

by 1shado1 Jun 26, 2009 3:29PM PDT

Hi Bob. I need your help. About a year ago, I vaguely remember coming across either an article or forum post somewhere that said that some Toshiba laptops shipped with dual core processors have one of the two cores "turned off" by default from the factory.

Does this sound familiar, or even possible?

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I remember that.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jun 26, 2009 10:45PM PDT

It was never an issue since the unit was sold as a single core. There are some that will make an issue out of it. Or those that will make the mistake of seeing the HT (see hyperthreading on google) and then discovering it is truly a single core. A small one hour class on CPU architecture follows.
Bob

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Thanks, Bob!

by 1shado1 Jun 27, 2009 6:06AM PDT

Good to know I wasn't dreaming.