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."
Yeah... really BIG news... bah (Score:1, Insightful)
Really, who the frig cares from a general computing standpoint? Who needs 8 CPUs?
No, I'm not making a '640k will be enough for anyone' comment... I know 8 CPUs WILL be useful one day, and MAY be nice to have now, but generally... it's in no way the BIG news of today.
Re:Yeah... really BIG news... bah (Score:5, Insightful)
We do! "News for Nerds", remember?
Re:How does this bode for NT6? (Score:2, Insightful)
Wonder where you heard that.
"That being the case, as multiple CPUs/cores become more commonplace, I think OS X will end up with the reputation of being the faster of the two."
Reputation maybe, after all OS X has the reputation of being God's gift in certain circles. Somehow I think reality will be different just as it is now. NT's design is vastly newer, was designed from the start as SMP and has supported large CPU counts forever. OS X, on the other hand, has the antique Mach at its core and still has serious locking issues that can seriously impede performance in certain situations. Apple hasn't offering anything beyond quad-core and only recently has it offered that. OS X may be a lot of things but fast isn't one of them. Microsoft has a huge headstart here.
Re:Yeah... really BIG news... bah (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:completely impossible statementt (Score:1, Insightful)
Just goes to show that VB *cough* programmers are a little dim...
Re:completely impossible statementt (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:How does this bode for NT6? (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:I guess (Score:3, Insightful)