8-core Mac!

[Andy Tarpinian]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Jay Vaughan wrote:

>> The cool thing about this is that the price went down, I can buy an 8
>> core for a base of $2,799. With improved graphics cards as well.
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> We got an 8-way Penryn machine today at work (woot!) and it is, quite
> frankly, damn fast.
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I think I see one in my near freelancing future. I'm curious to see  
what happens with the combo of these machines, Leopard, and Adobe CS3  
in multiprocessor/core support. As far as with in 1 application, like  
say after effects using 700% of processing power for a task, like a  
render. Right now on my Quad with tiger CS3 Aftereffects tops out at  
about 260% processor use in a render(that takes about 2 hours to  
complete.) I'm curious if the program is limited to something like  
that, or with a 8 core machine i would see a huge increase processing  
power for a task like this.