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The Apple News That Got Buried
An anonymous reader writes, "Apple's Showtime event was all well and good, but the big news today was on Anandtech.com. They found that the two dual-core CPUs in the Mac Pro were not only removable, but that they were able to insert two quad-core Clovertown CPUs. OS X recognized all eight cores and it worked fine. Anandtech could not release performance numbers for the new monster, but did report they were unable to max out the CPUs."
Typing this on an 8-core Mac pro, I manged to get first post! Wow, it IS fast!
"Crimson and Clover."
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
Shouldn't they be calling them "Apple Cores?"
Not until they lift the NDA, methinks!
"they were unable to max out the CPUs" that is ridiculous! On PC's in VB it's pretty simple:
dim Processor1Thread as new thread(addressof sub1)
dim Processor2Thread as new thread(addressof sub2)
Processor1Thread.start()
Processor2Thread.start()
dim x as integer
sub sub1()
for x = 0 to 1000000000000000
end sub
sub sub2()
dim x as integer
for x = 0 to 1000000000000000
end sub
and repeat for 6 other threads and subs. So they either proved it doesn't really work well at all or programming on a mac is impossibly hard...or they're lying to make it sound more dramatic. So whether they're lying about not maxing it out or they're lying and you just plain can't use all 8 cores at once, it's not as good as it sounds.
now stop reading and go play Dance Dance Revolution!
Try installing Vista.
Sure, we can upgrade the CUP. But Apple has really got to work on that CUPHOLDER. Mine snapped off 2 days out of the box.
Paul Grosfield - the quicker picker upper.
with 8 cores, that no one cares about Beowulf clusters anymore. :(
Except for the Mac Pro, Macs don't even come with cupholders anymore (cheap bastards)!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
If you mean Windows Vista, then the answer is no. You'll need 16 cores for that.
I think they were running the wrong program. All they had to do was launch Terminal, type in "yes", press enter, and watch as their cores blew up.
'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'
I'm sure I could write a better algorithm that generates more heat.
You need to utilise multiple registers in the FPU and the SIMD engine.
Probably a lot of push/pops to cook the cache as well.
and you need to do something along the lines of:
for (i=0;i16;i++) {if(!fork()) break;}
if you want to use all 4 cores on a dual-mobo.
What could be better than a jet powered motorcycle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8l6GTHLSWE
i think what you _really_ wanted to say was "640k cores ought to be enough for anybody". oh dear lord...
I never eat an Apple with a fork.
"No fear. No envy. No meanness." Liam Clancy
GP claims correctness because he was one of the best programmers at his school, and he started school at 17. I started university at 15 and similarly out-performed (most of) the (largely mediocre) students at my (less-than-prestigious) university as well as many of the professors. Ergo, if we assume the GP's correctness, my opinions must carry equal or greater weight than the GP's, by his own arguments.
However, I agree with the parent and think the GP is full of crap. This contradicts the starting assumption that the GP's premise is correct; therefore we see, via proof by contradiction, that the only conclusion able to be drawn is that the parent is correct and the GP is, like myself, a pretentious youth with a crappy education.
Quod erat demonstrandum. (Saying things in Latin TOTALLY clinches an argument!)
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