
Maschine specifically doesn't support hyperthreading most applications do. (especially for someone who wont consider upgrading in the next few years) Even though. The i7 has 6 cores and 12 threads which is a major advantage, this means that theoretically, each core can perform 2 calculations at once this is well worth an extra 200$. I3's and i5's dont have hyperthreading, that's the main difference other than the obvious core count/clock speed.


that's because Intel had a complete monopoly on consumer CPU's, so they kept them at a max of 4-cores for years, then AMD released Ryzen and forced them to make some changes, since then the naming kind of got weird.
