Apple now including quad-cores and USB 3 on iMacs!

[SXRguyinMA]

Way to get on the ball guys :facepalm: :whistler:

Oh, and I'm assuming it's USB 3 (codenamed "Thunderbolt") from what the article describes :neutral:

http://headlines.verizon.com/headlines/portals/headlines.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=headlines_portal_page__article&_article=3437546

[Technochicken]

Thunderbolt actually has nothing to do with USB. It is a completely different technology. You probably know it as Intel Light Peak. Thunderbolt is its commercial name.

[SXRguyinMA]

I knew nothing of this actually. I didn't think Apple could REALLY be that way...to rename USB 3 and make it proprietary Apple stuff :whistler:

I will look further into this Light Peak you speak of.....

[OvRiDe]

Think of Thunderbolt as more like a external PCIe port.

[SXRguyinMA]

ahhh ok I get it :D huge failpost on my end :facepalm:

[Twigsoffury]

we've got 8 core processors right around the corner for PC's dont we?


was dealing with a guy the other day that had a dx58so and two i7 920's

that was the biggest taskmanager cpu list i've ever came across in my entire life.

i wanted a prt scr of it.

[Kayin]

Mine in Linux is 16 physical cores, I'll get a screenshot when it gets up and running.

[slaveofconvention]

There was a (quickly removed) listing on ebay recently for an engineering sample of an 8 core socket 1155 processor - from what I saw though, those 8 cores were only running at 1.6Ghz which is kinda poor considering a 2600k will happily do 4.3Ghz on its 4 cores....

[Twigsoffury]

There was a (quickly removed) listing on ebay recently for an engineering sample of an 8 core socket 1155 processor - from what I saw though, those 8 cores were only running at 1.6Ghz which is kinda poor considering a 2600k will happily do 4.3Ghz on its 4 cores....

probably why its a engineering sample... had issues with the die manufacturer process?

I'm sure they'll be busting off 3.0+ghz easy.