Intel CPUs

From IEEE Computer, August 2011.

More iMac Benchmarks

found it here.

Core i7-Based 27" iMac Benchmarks

Found it here.

My new MacBook Pro

After 3+ years with my PowerMac G5 DP @ 2GHz, I now have a 15'' MacBook Pro 2.4GHz!

My reliable and trusty PowerMac G5 DP is in the hands of another Mac user as I could not afford to have two machines.

My new machine is quieter and more powerful so I should not complain. I only hope that it will be as reliable as my PowerMac G5!

Start thinking about cores

According to this blog entry from Intel:

"... the advice I’ll offer is that these developers should start thinking about tens, hundreds, and thousands of cores now in their algorithmic development and deployment pipeline. This starts at a pretty early stage of development; usually, the basic logic of the application should be influenced because it drives the asymptotic parallelism behaviors."

RAW CPU Power

I was reading Apple Pro profiles and I made the following thoughts:

I currently have more CPU power than Walter Murch when editing the Cold Mountain movie. He had dual-processor Power Mac G4s and I have a dual-processor Power Mac G5!

Sooner or later I will have more CPU power than Bill Frakes currently has.

And I probably have more CPU power than Apple when building Mac OS 10.3 (a.k.a. Panther)...

What does this mean? It means that we should stop thinking about having more CPU power and learn how to use the machines we have in a more creative way. We should try to write more efficient code, create more efficient workflows and think more before doing something.