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In some Macs, Apple’s designs will double or quadruple the number of cores that Intel provides. The current entry-level MacBook Air has two cores, for example.
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It should be noted that, beyond some sweet spot, more cores don't translate to more performance. Eight high-performance cores is probably pretty close at this point to what most people will take good advantage of.
And, with Apple's chips in particular, where they really strive is in single-core performance, which helps with a ton of scenarios (especially the web: JavaScript is by and large single-threaded).
I feel like Gurman is either overstating this aspect, or doesn't really know what he's talking about.