Comments on: MacBook Pro: Now Core 2 Duo-er

By: Joshua Staker

Joshua Staker — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:45:06 +0000

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?

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:24:12 +0000

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.)

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:09:18 +0000

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.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:10:17 +0000

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!

By: CrunchGear » Blog Archive » MacBooks To Get Core 2 Duo Treatment

CrunchGear » Blog Archive » MacBooks To Get Core 2 Duo Treatment — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:12:13 +0000

[...] Oops. Looks like someone fell asleep at the wheel at Play.com. Its leaked something intriguing: Core 2 Duo MacBooks, with a release date of November 13. We’ve heard rumors about this portable off-and-on since the MacBook Pro got bumped, so it’s not totally suprising. [...]

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CrunchGear » 2006 » October » 25 — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:00:53 +0000

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By: CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Apple’s Magsafe Plane Adapter

CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Apple’s Magsafe Plane Adapter — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:07:51 +0000

[...] Released alongside the Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros this morning, the Magsafe Plane adapter lets you safely plug into the airplane’s DC power ports – not available on el cheap-o Southwest flights. [...]

By: JDunkle

JDunkle — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:09:54 +0000

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