You have one processor chip with two processor cores inside. I think it's pretty much the functional equivalent of having two distinct processors but it shares packaging and maybe some circuitry. For all intents and purposes you have two processors. While not everything takes advantage of having more than one CPU, it does make a big difference. Your main app can use one CPU while the OS and anything else running can use the other. Once you get beyond two processors it gets more difficult to really keep them all loaded with work. This is why Apple introduced Grand Central in Snow Leopard which allows developers to break up tasks into little work units that grand schedule will queue and distribute to as many processors as you have. If you can buy 8-processor machines today, what will we have in three years? It's good they are laying the groundwork for this now.
http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/apples-grand-central-exactly-what-consumers-need/ CB william lomas wrote: > Hi, I have 1 processor on my macbook with 2 cores running at 2.4 GHZ. > What essentially please, does this mean? > Will > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
