New Quad Core CPU

As you all know Intel will be introducing the new quad core CPU soon. Is Apple going to introduce several totally new design desktops equipped with quad core CPUs? Or is Apple only going to offer an optional upgrade to quad core CPUs for their current three Mac Pros?

At first.
I think technology hit a wall... a heat dissipation wall.
The plan seems to be to reduce the speed and power and
compensate by brodening the force-area. This reduces
escaping power and produces more efficiency per power
unit. This is just simple coefficients.
Like if I had 8 procs each running at 1GHtz it's going to
aproach the speed of a single 7 or 8GHtz unit but at a
fraction of the power consumption and a magnitude of the
efficiency. This shift started five or six years ago.
http://tweakers.net/ext/i.dsp/1066381706.jpg <- 5 years ago
Maybe more. 64way units are already here. Though I bet we
don't see them on desktops for a good while. When this
reaches it's limits who knows what's up next? Chemical or
Atomic Phase processors? Shrug. World War Three not
withstanding..

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Also are there any other issues to take into account?.
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Seconded. Once of the nice things about their licensing is that it actually specified "physical" cpus rather than just cores, as Microsoft stuff often does.
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Is there a quad core cpu for my macbook 13in pro early 2011 with the socket P8400

Is there a quad core cpu for my macbook 13in pro early 2011 with the socket P8400?
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Hello FOlks.
I have a Digital Night Vision Monocular I need to connect video in on my Quad Core iMac.
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Your topic subject line says "VIDEO OUT on new Quad Core iMac."
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RAM on the new Quad core 2.5ghz G5

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it really depends on how you personally use logic. as a basic minimum I don't think anyone would tell you that under 1GB is a good idea. but if you never use sample based instruments, large reverb impulse responses and so on, then having more than 1GB is not necessarily going to make a difference at all.
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My new Quad Core iMac Not Getting Along With LG External.

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Hello,
I am noticing some timing issues using Seconds() function on a Quad Core computer. The optional boolean in Seconds() is True (by default).
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Howdy Troy,
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Hi Zahid-I,
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Windows Server Catalog
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/results.aspx?bCatId=1283&avc=10
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So no, you can't swap the CPU unless you are in possession of proper re-balling equipment along with the skills to use it.
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All X series ThinkPads, tablet or not, have the CPU soldered onto the board, and not socketed. This has been the case from the days of X20, almost 15 years ago.
So no, you can't swap the CPU unless you are in possession of proper re-balling equipment along with the skills to use it.
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Cheers,
George
In daily use: R60F, R500F, T61, T410
Collecting dust: T60
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Jvm on quad-core cpu

does anyone know some good literature
about how the jvm can utilize
the parellism power of a quad-core cpu?
even without spawning a java thread, or otherwise
trying for parallelism, the jvm will run faster because....?
its up to xp pro to utilize the 4 cores, right?
the jvm can't "known" about the 4 cores?
please give me some links to good
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does anyone know some good literature
about how the jvm can utilize
the parellism power of a quad-core cpu?
even without spawning a java thread, or otherwise
trying for parallelism, the jvm will run faster
because....?
its up to xp pro to utilize the 4 cores, right?
the jvm can't "known" about the 4 cores?Sure it can:
System.out.println("Core count: " + Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors());This code returns '4' for my twin dual-core machine.
Some of the classes in java.util.concurrent make use of this method.
Jim S.

HT3209 i have a quad core CPU and Radeon HD 6850 Graphics and 8GB of RAM .. and i can't rent HD 1080p Videos ! why ?

i have a quad core CPU and Radeon HD 6850 Graphics and 8GB of RAM .. and i can't rent HD 1080p Videos ! why ?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
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New Quad Core 27" i5 imac vs New Dual Core 27" i5 imac...

Even tho the Quad core 27" imac has 4 REAL cores as opposed to the Dual core 27" imac which only has 2 Real and 2 virtual(with hyperthreading)....a similarly spec'd dual core actually costs slightly more when you bump up the GPU to match the Quad's ATI RADEON 5750 with 1 GB of SDRAM.
For example with the student discount:
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It was the same with the last generation, where the top upgraded Core 2 was more expensive than the quad.
The quadcore Core i5 27" is by far the faster computer - partially because of the two extra cores, but also because of the bigger cache and the integrated memory controller. The dual is more expensive for two reasons:
1) BTO options are always more expensive
2) The CPU used in the top dualcore is actually more expensive than the one in the quad. The world is full of people who only look at the clockspeed, and for them Intel makes a model with the highest possible clockspeed and charges them for the nose through it. It is slower than the slowest quad on any reasonable benchmark, but it still sells.
Pick the quadcore, it's a much better computer.

Give it to me straight -- Can the new Quad Core iMac run Maya well?

Hey all, I've been hunting around the interwebs for reviews of the new 27 inch quad core machine and I'm having a heck of a time tracking down specifics regarding iMacs and their ability to run Maya, After Effects, other adobe programs, etc.
I'm a student right now, going on four years. I own a small graphic design/animation business and I'm afraid my poor little Macbook Pro is going to keel over on me any day now. I've noticed a drop in performance in the last six months, especially with Maya and After Effects. So I've been evaluating options, and I know it has to run OSX. Windows has only given me headaches in regards to Maya work. In short, it's gonna be a Mac.
I've priced out a Mac Pro, and I'd rather not spend 3 grand on a machine that doesn't have a monitor, and may have properties that I'm paying for that I don't necessarily need: monstrous expandability, server capabilities, a big-stinking CPU footprint. But the mantra I always hear is "Only pro models can run Maya". So I reluctantly began putting away money for a new Mac Pro, uncertain if I'd be able to afford the software to go with it. Then I read this article:
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In my mind, this article couldn't be more perfect for my position. It's telling me, "These high end iMacs are almost as powerful as the Mac Pro you can't afford. You can save a thousand bucks off the base computer. It comes with a monitor that you don't have to pay for. " But unfortunately the one question I need answered, that I'm having a heckuva time tracking down is "Can the stinking thing run Maya or can't it?" And if it can, will it be crippled?
So, please, anyone out there, can the new monster iMac run Maya, and if it can, does it suck at it?

No, there's no way to talk to Apple technical support via email, and they probably could not or would not be able to answer any questions about performance with third-party products. I doubt that more than a handful of Apple employees, sales rep or tech, would have access to any benchmark data on Maya with any model of Mac, and those Apple people would probably be those working with the Pro VAR channel or directly with large production companies.
I just got off the phone with an Apple sales associate who emphatically confirmed that the i7 iMac can run "all that Adobe stuff", but she'd never heard of Maya.... fun....
Not terribly surprising; Maya is pretty specialized and the Apple Store phone reps are generalists working mostly with consumers. Most people running Maya would be working with an Apple VAR or would otherwise have access to specialists. You might try talking to an Apple Pro Video/Film VAR - there are a number around the country though none in Salt Lake, apparently - or asking in the Autodesk forums:
http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/
If you search for "iMac", you'll find some comments, though none I can find yet regarding performance with the new iMac models. But if you post asking if anyone has experience with Maya on the i7, you might get useful responses.
Regards.
P.S.
And on top of that I can't buy a 27 inch display separately
Well, you can, and they're not terribly expensive; under $400.00. But that might be more than your budget could accept, which may be what you meant. I'd elect a smaller primary monitor and go with two displays in any case, even with an iMac. I find it much better for workflow to have a monitor for the primary canvas and a separate one for tool palettes, etc.
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