Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Sep 2006 16:02 UTC
"Codenamed Kenstfield (Core 2) and Clovertown (Xeon), Intel's new quad-core processors will dramatically increase the amount of processing power you can have in a single system. Given that the Mac Pro features two LGA-771 sockets, you could theoretically drop two Clovertown processors in there and you'd have an 8-core Mac Pro. Without a doubt Apple will release a quad-core version of the Mac Pro, either by the end of this year or early next year, but are users who buy the Mac Pro today missing out? While we're still a couple of months away from being able to test a retail Clovertown CPU in the Mac Pro, we wanted to see if the current engineering samples of the chip would work."
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2005-07-06
You're thinking too much like an engineer and too little like a sales guy. While your point is correct, I can see many companies adding multithreating to their apps simply so they can brag about it in their sales litterature. Sure it will add bugs, but it will also let you sell more uppgrades to people who don't really understand the pros and cons of multithreading.