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		vonmoltke on Nov 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2018 Mac Mini Review First, that means it isn't a "giant security hole"; it's a potential security hole. Second, if an exploit is discovered just disable the extra hardware threads until it gets patched. As an aside, I don't know what your "supposedly" about the i5 is supposed to mean. The i5 has only one hardware thread per core.

Alex3917 on Nov 6, 2018 [–]

> As an aside, I don't know what your "supposedly" about the i5 is supposed to mean.

The tech specs page on the Apple site doesn't give the exact part number, so there's always the chance it could be some previously unreleased chip.

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