BIOS Hyperthreading question

[Humpty 751]

So its still related to the CPU been able to support it. If I had a HT compatible CPU in Snow Leopard OS, I wonder if it would work?

Sometimes I feel that HT is just a gimmick , in all honesty I have never seen it do anything but again it is my thinking .

[VirginAus737 0]

It helps with media applications and video encoding. I have said before IMHO it will never really take off in the game market.

[orchestra_nl 925]

If you compare a CPU to a factory, a core can be compared to a workshop within the factory. One factory can have multiple workshops, so a quad core CPU has four "workshops".A thread can be compared to a worker. If a workshop contains one worker then only one item can be built at the same time in that workshop. If there are two workers, they can work on two items.In theory you could have lots of workers in a workshop, but they could hinder each other, so it is limited to two.

[VirginAus737 0]

Well explained, I think that cleared it up for a lot of us.