Dual Processor TiBook?

[Onyxx]

Check this out from go2mac.com

http://www.go2mac.com/story.lasso?newsID=1089

Dual processor Ti's? Sounds good but just how much heat and how long does a battery last with two processors pumping away?

 

[PowerUser86]

Sounds like a fake to me.

it sounds fake, for a few reasons:
1. the heat output. two G4's chuggin' away under a case less than an inch thick is bound to cause problems.
2. power consumption. no battery could stand being drained by two G4's for very long. we would probably see drastically reduced running times, like from 4 hours to 1.5 hours.
3. Unfeasability. Stand back and think critically about this for a moment. Who in their right mind would put two of the most powerful processors into a thin laptop? It doesn't make sense. Thats not to say that Apple wouldn't be the ones to do it, but I just think they won't.
I personally would really like to see this happen, but I don't think it will, there are just too many flaws. So for now, keep hoping

 

[andyb]

Enough room?

Is there even enough room in the 'Book for dual processors?

 

[PowerUser86]

Nope. I don't think there is. I think that salesman was BS'n.

 

[Onyxx]

hmmm

i totally agree on the heat and size issues. But i have a crazy idea.
We have all heard about the G5 having 4 on chip processors. Would it be possible to make a dual on chip processor? True it would still put out a hell of a lot of heat but maybe the fan is on continuous and the heat sink has been improved (using gell instead of the white cardboard-like stuff they have right now.
Hey you never know with apple. Hey mabe osx will finally launch apps at a respectible rate in the finder with that second processor ;-)
oh well it would be pretty cool anyway.

 

[PowerUser86]

Where did you hear about a G5 and it having 4 on chip processors? the guy who thought that half-baked idea must have been smoking something!

 

[OreoCookie]

That is actually correct, the G5 features multiple processor cores on one die. Currently the numer is four.
Check out the article at TheRegister.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/18209.html

IBM is doing the same thing with its Power4, the successor of the Power3.

 

[PowerUser86]

too cool

 

[OreoCookie]

Power4-Server

The Power4 is derived from the PowerPC architecture, MacOS X should be comparatively easy to port ...
This is just speculation, but I'd love to see a Mac Workstation with one or two of these beast. Maybe a high end server ...
The sad thing is that I am sure, I couldn't afford one

 

[PowerUser86]

The workstation would really kick arse. Just think of using photoshop with one of those babies!!