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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. Don't believe everything you read: by ElitistWhiner · · Score: 0, Troll

    NeXT multiprocessed the guts of OS X on 2-4 processors. The result is that the mach kernel doesn't scale the processors linearly. There isn't the straightline performance boost of adding another processor beyond 4 cores with Mac OS X's mach kernel.

    Calm down...

  2. Re:Things you should know but don't seem to. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That was fucking beautiful. There is nothing more annoying than a Slashbot with an over-inflated sense of self-worth and delusions of genius, and there is nothing funnier than seeing that same Slashbot put in their fucking place. Top stuff old bean.