MacBook Pro: Now Core 2 Duo-er
- October 24th, 2006
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Apple just sprung a secret upgrade on the world in the form of MacBook Pro notebooks with Core 2 Duo processors. The two notebooks affected are the 15- and 17-inch models and offer up to 39 percent boost in performance, all told.
Every MacBook Pro features the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB of shared L2 cache, which is up to 39 percent faster than the previous 2.16 GHz MacBook Pro and more than seven times faster than the 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4 running industry standard benchmarks. Apple has enhanced Mac OS® X to take advantage of the technology advances from Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors, resulting in increased performance in professional applications like Aperture(TM) 1.5, Final Cut Pro® 5 and Logic Pro 7.
It’s very interesting the way Apple is pumping out these upgrades with little fanfare. At this rate the MacBook Pro will run at five billion gigaflops per second by 2008.
Apple MacBook Pro Notebooks Now With Intel Core 2 Duo Processors [PR Newswire]
JDunkle (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Who will be the first out of the gate? I have been waiting so long that my budget grew with time. Now its time to fully spec one out.
Also, there are a few accessories that are must have. Logitech V270, New Case, Extra Battery, and a ShaggyMac screen protector.
http://www.shaggymac.com
Dan
6 months ago
5,000,000,000 gigaflops per second - that is one mighty fast processor.
Considering Intel’s next quad core is rated about 40 gigaflops that seems pretty good.
I might have to buy one!
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Ian (Who am I?)
6 months ago
5 billion gflops/sec is a lot, considering flops is already per second (Floating Point Operations Per Second) and giga means billion. 5 billion gigaflops is 5 petaflops (5 quadrillion flops). The world’s fastest supercomputer, Blue Gene, runs at only a tenth of this speed, 500 teraflops. Add the extra “per second” and you get 5 quadrillion calculations per second squared, which means it’s accelerating by 5 petaflops every second.
Tom (Who am I?)
3 months ago
LOL, funny how you put it. Accelerating rate change. Anyhow, a billion gigaflops is an exaflop (K, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta, etc.) The machine would accelerate to 157,784,635 exaflops (about 158 yottaflops) in a years time. I’m not sure there’s enough silicon on earth for that. (I’m not going to bother with that calculation.)
Joshua Staker (Who am I?)
3 weeks ago
FYI — the term Flops is an acronym stands for “Floating Point Operations per Second” which basically means that if a computer runs at 1 Flop it can perform 1 multiplication problem per second with Float precision (about 16 decimal points). Point being, saying Gigaflops per second is saying “1 billion floating point operations per second per second” which is a bit redundant.
Anywho, does anyone know the speed of the current macbook pros in terms of flops?