How many dudes are getting a Dell? Apparently quite a few friends and
family of people I know are going to receive a computer for Christmas
this year. Yes, I may know people you know, but I’ll never tell so if
you want to email me, please refrain from trying to get me to blabber
what will be under the tree for you this year.

Dell has some great deals going on now and as a result of their online
configuration tool, I have been asked three times this week what
hyper-threading is. To buy or not to buy, that is the question. The
answer is yes, or maybe. According to Webopedia,
the definition of hyper-threading is:

“A technology developed by Intel that enables multithreaded software
applications to execute threads in parallel on a single multi-core
processor instead of processing threads in a linear fashion. Older
systems took advantage of dual-processing threading in software by
splitting instructions into multiple streams so that more than one
processor could act upon them at once.”

Now, in English: A hyper-threading processor handles a larger workload,
and a processor’s work is loading and running “things” for the user.
People who are “super-clickers” or who expect their computer to be able
to do many things - at once and right now - will benefit from
hyper-threading. Think about a busy mall, which at the moment,
shouldn’t be too hard to imagine for most of us. The busy mall is able
to welcome many patrons simultaneously thanks to the many mall doors. A
processor with hyper-threading has more doors than a non-hyper-threading
processor (is that a word? Google it and let me know) and therefore can
do more at once than its predecessors. If that sounds good to you, buy
a hyper-threading processor. Oh, and as long as you’re taking my
advice, have a happy holiday!