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The Apple News That Got Buried

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the times-eight dept.

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."

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  1. So fast, I got first post! by GrahamCox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Typing this on an 8-core Mac pro, I manged to get first post! Wow, it IS fast!

  2. Apple Cores by dotslashdot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't they be calling them "Apple Cores?"

  3. completely impossible statementt by Desolator144 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.

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  4. Couldn't max out the CPUs? by brundog · · Score: 5, Funny
    ..."but did report they were unable to max out the CPUs."


    Try installing Vista.

  5. Re:Great!! by mctk · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. I guess by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    with 8 cores, that no one cares about Beowulf clusters anymore. :(

    1. Re:I guess by heatdeath · · Score: 5, Funny

      with 8 cores, that no one cares about Beowulf clusters anymore. :(

      I suppose you could run 8 VMs on the machine and make a Beowulf cluster out of those.

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    2. Re:I guess by ThatsNotFunny · · Score: 4, Funny
      Tell ya what, this scientist could use one for quite a few things that *are* nicely parallelizable.
      Congrats! You win today's "Best Euphamism for Downloading Porn" award!
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  7. Re:Great!! by mrchaotica · · Score: 4, Funny

    Except for the Mac Pro, Macs don't even come with cupholders anymore (cheap bastards)!

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  8. Re:have to ask by phalse+phace · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you mean Windows Vista, then the answer is no. You'll need 16 cores for that.

  9. Re:can't max out CPUs? uh oh by jZnat · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  10. Re:have to ask by arjun · · Score: 5, Funny

    i think what you _really_ wanted to say was "640k cores ought to be enough for anybody". oh dear lord...