"To accommodate the enormous amounts of memory being added to advanced hardware, Snow Leopard extends the 64-bit technology in Mac OS X to support breakthrough amounts of RAM up to a theoretical 16TB, or 500 times more than what is possible today. More RAM makes applications run faster, because more of their data can be kept in the very fast physical RAM instead of on the much slower hard disk."
lol, guess what, 08 mac pros ALSO HAVE RAM!
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and 09 base models can only have 8 GB. ;D
so, what does that mean to snow leopards theoretical 16TB?
that any 08 will still have 32GB and 09's 8gb or 32 gb.
applies to both generations the same, More ram, faster applications? no?
you know, the improvement from 1066mhz FSB to 1600mhz FSB also had an impact and didnt need any special software to do so! it has nothing to do with leopard../snow leopard/windows/linux
That is BS. Faster memory has everything to do with relations to an OS. Its retarded to think otherwise. Faster 1033MHZ RAM + QPI, 2x hyperthreading in each cores, able to disable unused cores and triggering turbo boost and no more slow ass FSB has everything to do with faster memory throughput.
Jesus, so this is what it feels like fighting with someone whos trying to defend their own hardware to DEATH.
no, this feels like fighting someone who has some common sense (you against 5 of us?) and you are like don chiote..
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faster memory is faster regardless of the OS, it has nothing to do with the OS directly, it makes it run faster. but that again has nothing to do with Snow Leopard in particular.
QPI is just a hardware BUS like FSB was and its infact the same thing done differently and it will become futile eventually like FSB did.
Oh boy.. nevermind!! Yea the 08 model will be exactly the same speed as the current models!! There are you guys happy now, end of discussion.
not it wont be, nobody ever claimed that.
but if you take a look at the apples benchmarks, 2,4x memory throughput is already utilized 100% in ANY os, including leopard. its a hardware property not software property.
What more can you say about it? Nehalem OVERALL is faster than the previous gen that its replacing.
WHY is it so hard to believe that!! Good God i'm getting a migraine.
nobody ever said it was not faster..
here is why people complain:
base models:
06>08 = 100% faster, 0% price increase
08>09 = 25% faster, 10-15% price increase for octo
08>09 = 30% slower(quad?), 15% price decrease compared to OCTO.
and now with discounts:
08 is 2500$ and 09 is 3200$ for base octo, being 700$ difference for what, 10-15% of performance increase..
----------this is the frustrations and debates whether its better to get a 08 octo and just swap when nehalem evolves into something (16core, not 16 "virtual" core)
these are facts:
QPI has nothing to do with OS, never has, its just an interface to communicate between hardware and IS and has ALWAYS been working without ANY OS and is totally 100% HARDWARE!
Thus, installing ANY os wont make the hardware bus FASTER or SLOWER, with the exception of OVERCLOCKING IT IN FIRMWARE. everything else is THE SAME.
yes, it is, 2.4X faster than 08 generation, but Snow Leopard will NOT change that ratio in any way, so waiting for SL to "benefit" that is stupid.
Hyperthreading means ONE 2.26/2.66/2.93 core can take 2 threads instead of one. that in a very crippled explanation means one 2.26 core handling two threads, thus distributing power. its not 2.26x16 cores. so raw power is the same, and performance gain is somewhat weak, 15-20%, still, no OS can change that because you cannot suck more power than its available...
1033 RAM is a ram speed increase. it happens every single generation. it went form 06 667mhz to 08 800mhz. and now to 1033 mhz and 1333 mhz.
Snow leopard in conclusion will make EVERY SYSTEM FASTER...
it will not boost Nehalems into sky and leave 08 gens behind.
08 gens are also multithreaded..raw power still means something regardless of the architecture
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i am not saying 08 is faster, its not, its slower, for ****s sake THANK GOD its slower it would be stupid for apple to release a slower computer for a higher price... all debates here were regarding price/performance=value