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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."
We do! "News for Nerds", remember?
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
You mean I can have an 8-station animation render farm in one box for a fraction of the cost? Why is this not big news? As an animator, compositor and editor, I find this big news indeed.
"Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life
Well I'm not going to justify their business case to you since I don't work for them. However, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you've got no idea what you are talking about. I'm going to guess you probably do not develop enterprise telecom apps for a living. This is, in fact, what the company my friend works for does (no I'm not going to name them). I don't know why they use what they use, I don't work for them, however I'm going to guess, given that they do a good job making money, that their choice works for them. Also, given that HP markets systems for this purpose (http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detai l.asp?id=105112801) I'm going to guess that they aren't the only one.
Your personal feelings about Windows really aren't relevant to how useful it is or not in a given situation. Unless you have experience directly in it's use in such a situation, you are projecting your personal biases on to a situation.
Now if I were to hazard a guess as to why they might use it would be because of Visual Studio. Given that I have had developers describe it as (and I quote) "The best development environment ever," perhaps that's the reason.
Either way, I've no direct knowledge as to why they'd do this, and I'm fairly certain you don't either.
I wonder if that's why they "couldn't max out the CPUs" — the bus was saturated.
Just junk food for thought...