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Agreed. And as pparks noted, some processors have it, some don't. In all honesty you'd want to get one that does HT as it helps with multi-tasking, something a lot of PC users do... read e-mail, surf the net and listen to music....
Hyper-Threading......
This is a good thing, and does workHyper-threading is an Intel-proprietary technology used to improve parallelization of computations (doing multiple tasks at once) performed on PC microprocessors. For each processor core that is physically present, the operating system addresses two virtual processors, and shares the workload between them when possible. Hyper-threading requires not only that the operating system support multiple processors, but also that it be specifically optimized for HTT[1], and Intel recommends disabling HTT when using operating systems that have not been optimized for this chip feature.
As for cost, the technology is imbedded in the processor, IE depending on what processor you get will determine if the tech is incorporated in the chip, not cost. In short you’re paying for the overall performance of the chip, not just one tech spec.
This is nothing to be concerned about.... unless you want it.