Is the Core i5 Processor from Intel like the Celerons of yesteryear?

Posted by Chris on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Chris
Published on 2009-09-16T17:38:45Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 0:13 UTC
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The title pretty much says it.

I know that the Core i7's are Quad Core and Hyper-threaded (so 4 cores, and 8 logical), and the Core i5's are Quad Core as well but not Hyper-threaded, does this really make a difference? Or are the only people who are going to care are the ones who CPU intensive operations?

I'm a developer, so I'm more concerned about hard drive speed most times than CPU speed.

Any thoughts?

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