I was reading an article on Anandtech about how the next great breakthrough
is going to be the dual/quad core chips. It actually got me pretty excited.
The point of the article was about how moving from a 1.5GHz to a 2gHz to a
4gHz makes all of your tasks finishes faster, but the snappiness of the
computer really isn't any better than a 900mHz Pentium running Win95.
(Although it's a heck of a lot more stable)
That's all going to change with the dual/quad core designs. Imagine scanning
a negative in the background on core1, downloading the TOPE19 archive on
core2, adjusting the levels on your latest E2 shot on core3 and reading the
list on core4, with zero degradation of *snappiness*.
sounds hot,
Evan
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Tom Scales
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 5:07 PM
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Subject: [OM] Re: What if...
Not sure how that works since the chips aren't made by Intel, they're made
by Motorola, from IBM designs.
The same chip is used in the pSeries (formerly RS/6000). Too bad you can't
get one of those bad boys. Probably the equivalent of 10Ghz.
Tom
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From: "R.Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 2:26 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: What if...
>
> Oh, I was mostly commenting on how Steve Jobs had announced that we'd
> have 3 GHz G5 machines by the end of the year and then Intel stiffed
> him on delivery so Apple had to get their speed increase (though only
> to 2.5 GHz) by pushing the chips so hard that they've had to include a
> liquid cooling system on the new G5s. The whole thing this year has
> been enough to give anyone a tic. ;-)
>
> Nah, I'm perfectly happy with my Quicksilver machine. When slightly
> faster G5 machines with PCI Express graphics come out I'll grab one of
> those and use my Quicksilver as a dedicated ProTools machine. I can't
> imagine ever willingly going back to using a WinTel machine, no matter
> what the clock speed.
>
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