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Apple does something they should have done 10 years ago
Chesire Cat:
I liked apple before it got all popular
dennis:
I really should've become friends with Anand when I lived in Raleigh.
Catfish_Man:
--- Quote from: elcapitan ---Fuck prices, watch the temperatures go up. I have no idea how they can cool a quad-core laptop, or even deal with it power-wise.
Still a freakin' cool idea though.
--- End quote ---
Multicore chips actually have very interesting power consumption properties. Increasing the clock frequency of a chip by a factor of 2 will, if even possible, basically always require more than double the power (power consumption is quadratic with input voltage and linear with clock speed, and major speed increases require voltage increases).
As a result, you can sometimes get better performance/watt with multicore by having a dual 1N GHz chip requiring 2M power, because the single 2N GHz chip would require >3M power. The trick, of course, is how well you can take advantage of the parallelism. If your task is serial, then you'll really have low power consumption... because one core will just be sitting idle :(
morca007:
--- Quote from: Mnementh ---Isn't it a bit much, yes.
But damn if it doesn't make my nerd penis bigger.
--- End quote ---
No, no it doesn't. No REAL nerd would give the smallest bit of respect to a mac owner.
Just other Mac owners.
Luke:
The insinuation that respect is even remotely related to being a nerd amuses me greatly.
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