I've been looking at fast multi-core laptops too, trying to decide what to buy,
specifically which fast processor. Intel's core i7-980x Extreme Edition would
appear to be *the* processor to get--with 6 cores and 12 threads!--but there are
only a few such laptops out there at present (not to mention *expensive*); and
in any case, they wouldn't be as fast as an equivalent desktop model AFAIK, for
the reasons already mentioned.

I was wondering something: With Intel's Hyper-Threading technology, would the
core i7-980x be able to run Pov-Ray on *12* simultaneous, parallel threads, or
only 6 (because it has only six cores)? Sorry if that's a naive question; I'm
still trying to understand the difference between 'cores' and 'threads' and how
they impact Pov-Ray performance.

Ken

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