The Apple News That Got Buried 347
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."
So fast, I got first post! (Score:5, Funny)
Coming soon to an Apple Store near you... (Score:3, Funny)
Apple Cores (Score:5, Funny)
Re:CPU upgrade market (Score:3, Funny)
completely impossible statementt (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Couldn't max out the CPUs? (Score:5, Funny)
Try installing Vista.
Re:Great!! (Score:5, Funny)
I guess (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Coming soon to an Apple Store near you... (Score:3, Funny)
Or "Octomac"
Re:have to ask (Score:5, Funny)
Re:can't max out CPUs? uh oh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:completely impossible statementt (Score:3, Funny)
P.S. My sig says that because the teacher, a 15 year programming veteran, and some other crazy expert with natural skills like me all couldn't design the project we were working on as fast as I could and only one other person's was virtually crash proof. If I knew every command there was, I'd be the best at programming in the world but just give me a few years hehehe
Re:I guess (Score:5, Funny)
I suppose you could run 8 VMs on the machine and make a Beowulf cluster out of those.
Re:completely impossible statementt (Score:1, Funny)
I'm sure it will serve you really well.
Also, one thing you'd notice if you weren't a wanker 19 year-old is that most of the people on slashdot are giant nerds about something else in addition to tech. You know, like shakespeare, or atoms, or Africa, or, yes, even grammar.
In fact, rip on basically anything included in a decent 4 year education and I'm sure you'll offend someone's area of nerddom on here.
Slashdotworthy geek does not equal codemonkey.
So why dont you just pipe the fuck down for a couple years?
Also, just to nitpick... "cuz they made me go early since I was so smart" ?
What the flying fuck kind of english construction is that? You must be a *real* hotshit programmer if you fuckup your flame-code and then rip on grammar while talking about how smart you are in that fashion.
Not a programmer myself, but the way i understand it, 'grammar' is pretty key.
People understand you if put you order words wrong, or just stupidly... but last time I listened to my programmer friends geek out a misplaced character can keep a whole program from working.
so yes, good luck with your whole... thing, there
p.s. why *dont* you just go ahead and post some usefull code that will max out the cores? Something tells me that someone out there may just be able to approach your great level of skill close enough to maybe glean some glittering of insight as to what you might be trying to accomplish and share its brilliance with us plebes.
Re:Heres the real way to max out the cpus! (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:have to ask (Score:5, Funny)
Miss Manners (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Apple Cores (Score:2, Funny)
Re:completely impossible statementt (Score:3, Funny)
I'm pretty sure you've got to do something in a loop or it'll be dropped by the compiler as a trivial optimisation. But hey! What do I know after years of VB, VBA programming, in addition to *real* languages like C++ or *useful* things like SQL? I'm a babe in the woods compared to a Uni student full of piss and vinegar!
So - when will you debunk AnandTech? Clearly you're more knowledgeable than Mr Lal Shimpi.
Re:I guess (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I guess (Score:4, Funny)
Parent is correct by GP's own standards (Score:3, Funny)
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!)
Re:completely impossible statementt (Score:1, Funny)
Re:completely impossible statementt (Score:2, Funny)
apparently nothing, they compile fine with supposedly the best compilers in
Re:completely impossible statementt (Score:3, Funny)
And 4 year colleges rerun all that info from high school and middle school because they assume you paid no attention and must have cheated on the SAT/ACT's or something to get in. It's an insult really.
Alternate Blog (Score:3, Funny)