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Apple does something they should have done 10 years ago
mberan42:
--- Quote from: Catfish_Man ---<edit> Just to be clear here, this was targeted at several people, not just mberan's post (which seemed mostly reasonable aside from the stereotyping). </edit>
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Thanks, I tried not to do anything but stereotype. (Heh, as if only stereotyping is a good thing - I tried not to rip on anyone's opinions / preferences, at least...)
Grawsith:
8 cores. SWEET.
Whenever I get a new computer with more power, I always play UT2004 with at high-res with max bots and watch it die from over-powering.
MUHAHAHA!!!
arthur barnhouse:
--- Quote from: Mnementh on 13 Sep 2006, 17:19 ---Oh, what I mean is that Apple used to solder in the chip, so you couldn't take one out and pop a faster one in. This is the first system by them that I'm aware of that uses any sort of socket that you can swap shit with.
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They actually haven't soldered the processors on the most Macs. A lot of the desktops were fairly upgradable, and whole ecosystems (similar in many ways to the iPod ecosystem) sprung out of the desire of average consumers wanting to upgrade the unusual processors of the Mac. Laptops, on the other hand, often had soldered processors in order to cut down excess space in the machine. Now, I can't quite remember, but I believe that they still follow that policy for laptops. Let me do a little digging.
Update: I'm correct, if Wikipedia is to be trusted. Laptops still have soldered processors, even in the Intel upgrade. But to be fair, it does make the unit much thinner.
Catfish_Man:
bleh, the old G3/G4 processor upgrades were nasty. Big expensive daughtercards, mostly.
EmoFan:
--- Quote from: Mnementh on 12 Sep 2006, 21:03 ---Apple does something they should have done 10 years ago
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Sorry, but isn't it unreasonible to expect Apple to have the hardware to do 8 cores 10 years ago? If your talking about switching to Intel chipset, then it's old news since they been telling people this for a few years. Their labtops are already Intel as they're doing the switch over. Still, I think Apple want to hit the profession areas. Being the "Work" computer which when you see someone with a Apple you know they're actually doing work on that machine instead of playing video games, surfing the web, and other activies.
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