Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Jan 2008 11:57 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Benchmarks "Earlier this week Apple released updated Mac Pros that use Intel's new Penryn processors. Also new is the fact that the standard Mac Pro configuration now comes with eight (instead of four) cores. Of course, what I've been wondering (as I sit here and think about getting a new Mac Pro) is how does the new standard eight-core Mac Pro perform compared to the old high-end Mac Pro? I've gathered Geekbench 2 results for both Mac Pros to find out."
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RE: Quad Core Laptop
by stew on Fri 11th Jan 2008 19:35 UTC in reply to "Quad Core Laptop"
stew
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Nah, you just need a proper IDE that compiles on multiple CPUs at the same time. Then you can easily keep 16 cores busy.

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