CNET violates Mac Pro warranty, installs eight cores in Mac Pro

Anand didn't give any benchmarks. This test did.

So with chipmakers using multiple cores to keep up with Moore's law, how are programmers going to increase the parallelism of their apps to utilize the multiple processors? As this test shows, some tasks don't lend themselves to multiple threads.

Is some sort of time slicing (similar to a mainframe's task scheduling, but on a lower level) the direction PC software needs to take to make use of a multicore system?

I'm in the market for a Mac Pro (stupid non-DL-DVI on my iMac!) soon, but I can't see Apple putting a quad core Xeon in the Mac Pro until Intel can produce them at 3GHz.

There's nothing tying OS X to the Mac on the Mac Pros; Apple is no longer shipping TPM.

Given that OS/X is booting after changing the chip i have to rethink something :: I thought that the security that tied OS/X to the mac was in the processor itself. Is it is the efi ? Or is it hidden elsewhere on the motherboard ?

Already done by Anand over two months ago.

thanks for this information

Creating the marketing name for a eight processor Mac should provide for endless hours of jokes!

Do you really think that CNET really cares about violating the warranty? As if they'll go into the apple store and go "ummmm, my mac isn't working", "well what model is it?" They'll ask. "well it's the eight core mac pro". At that point the genius will start drooling over the computer he is standing in front of starting a fire.

good to see osx whopping xp on the 'fair' tests (not itunes or gaming)

Hahaha well I wouldn't really consider it hacking the Mac Pro, because after all you're just replacing the CPU. I have to admit, I'm surprised that it works, knowing Apple's history on upgrades. But it's welcome news.

It's also welcome news to know that my 3.0GHz Mac Pro still reigns supreme! So much power for a student...it's truly overkill haha.

PS: I laugh every time I hear the word bejesus. It should be used more often I think

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