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Silly MP speed question

vansouza

vansouza

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Mar 28, 2006
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I was wondering about the relative speed of a new 8 core Mac Pro say running 3.2 processors with 10gigs of ram.... do bouncing dock programs bounce any less. Like in my MB OOffice beta3 takes about 14 seconds to present a spreadsheet. Would that be any faster on a MP? or is that kind of speed related to other issues?

Thanks...
 
It will open faster, but maybe not hugely faster. I doubt that the computer will use multiple cores to open a program. The real gains are in more processor intensive tasks with programs that can utilized multiple cores/processors. If dock bounces are that big of a concern you can always just leave the program open and hide it. Then it will be ready when you need it.
 
many program start will be diskspeed-limited. Hard drives are getting faster and faster but at a much lover rate than CPUs computing speed.
For a significantly reduced number of bounces you have to wait a couple of years for affordable Desktop-SSDs
 
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