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It seems to me that this situation does, in fact, sound correct. The 50% reading is the measure of the total cpu cycles available; however, since you are running dual processors, only one of them is being used during mediocre and mundane tasks. Therefore, your cpu reading will report in the 50% range until that other processor needs to kick in. It may sound strange, but if, for example, you were to render a scene in a 3D program such as 3D Studio MAX, you might notice that your cpu resources may actually rise to something in the range of 70 - 80% as your second processor becomes available to system processes. I may be flawed in my reasoning about dual processors, but I believe that both of them are not running at all times.
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