> My Mac Pro has a pair of quad-core CPUs, but both iStat Menus and MenuMeters > show a bar chart with 16 bars rather than the expected 8 bars. Is this a > Lion thing? There were only 8 bars under Snow Leopard. Why does Lion seem > to think I have 16 cores?
You have 8 physical cores, but each core can do two things; it can pretend to be 16 cores, 8 physical and 8 logical. My MacBook Pro will attempt to only use the physical cores normally, turning on the logical ones only in very high usage, so I'm guessing that they are not as fast as real cores. This message may have been spell checked by a laptop kitten. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
