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The CPU has two physical cores, so you will have four virtual cores to play with in total thanks to Hyper-Threading. Turbo Boost can jack the clockspeed up to 3.066GHz automatically. Quite frankly, most office productivity tasks won’t require this — the multiple cores are much more important, because they ensure that multitasking will be a breeze.
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