Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jul 2008 05:10 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
An opinion article at APCMag: "The focus of Snow Leopard is on core upgrades, not shiny new features. A bedrock focused update that delivers a streamlined, enhanced OS X. Stability. Efficiency. A "new generation of core technologies." All this is about raising the floor on the entire system. Multi-core optimization, support for 16TB RAM (yes, Terabytes), and a language to allow developers to tap the power of the graphics processor are just a few of the key upgrades. But you can't lift the floor and let people walk around where the floor used to be all at the same time. Not without leaving holes for a potential rising damp problem further down the track."
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They did, the last G5 systems were dual core (and dual processor, so 4 cores total)...
Also optimizations for dual core systems will also benefit dual processor systems, which are far more common among PPC users... I have an old dual processor G4 somewhere.
Also optimizations for dual core systems will also benefit dual processor systems, which are far more common among PPC users... I have an old dual processor G4 somewhere.
Those were *Mac Pro* PPCs though, if your computational performance needs were that great back then, computer upgrades are certainly not out of the picture half a decade later.
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"There are multi core PPC processors, and multi processor PPC systems are pretty common too...
Also it's quite possible to fit a modern GPU to a PPC system.
Also it's quite possible to fit a modern GPU to a PPC system.
Except for later PPC Mac Pros that were already very high-end workstation systems to begin with (and thus are replaced rather than run without upgrades for over 6 years by the companies and professionals that need such expensive bleeding edge type systems) it's my understanding that Apple did not sell multiprocessor or multicore (correct me if I'm wrong, I think they didn't sell any multicore PPCs) PPC computers. Thus the argument is essentially correct. "
Apple were selling multi-processor G4 systems as far back as 2001. They continued that with the G5 systems, which ended with multi-processor and multi-core systems just before the switch to Xeons in late 2005.
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"Except for later PPC Mac Pros that were already very high-end workstation systems to begin with (and thus are replaced rather than run without upgrades for over 6 years by the companies and professionals that need such expensive bleeding edge type systems) it's my understanding that Apple did not sell multiprocessor or multicore (correct me if I'm wrong, I think they didn't sell any multicore PPCs) PPC computers. Thus the argument is essentially correct.
Apple were selling multi-processor G4 systems as far back as 2001. They continued that with the G5 systems, which ended with multi-processor and multi-core systems just before the switch to Xeons in late 2005. "Weren't those Mac Pros? Read my message carefully. Note "Mac Pro" and "over 6 years".
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Also it's quite possible to fit a modern GPU to a PPC system.
Except for later PPC Mac Pros that were already very high-end workstation systems to begin with (and thus are replaced rather than run without upgrades for over 6 years by the companies and professionals that need such expensive bleeding edge type systems) it's my understanding that Apple did not sell multiprocessor or multicore (correct me if I'm wrong, I think they didn't sell any multicore PPCs) PPC computers. Thus the argument is essentially correct.