i'm about to purchase a laptop for running audition 2.0 with a PreSonus firepod, and have these processor options (1 gb memory, 80 gb hard drive)...

intel core duo 2 ghz

or

intel pentium 4 w/ht 3 ghz

i've heard good reviews of the dual core processors in the home pc setting (looking at pictures and listening to music at the same time, etc) but nothing about their performance running one piece of demanding software (like audio production software). in my mind, a faster single core processor seems to make more sense for running one intensive program, unless i'm missing something here (can audition split the processing tasks into two cores? isn't that hyper-threading?)

thank you knowledgable ones...