MacBook Pro 2 Intel 80486

[Artmuzz]

Hi,

I have the new Penryn Core2Duo 2.4Ghz MacBook Pro and I recently installed Menu Meters.

When I click on the processer percentages on the menu bar, Menu Meters tells me I have 2 Intel 80486 @2.40Ghz.

What is Intel 80486? I thought it was Intel Core2Duo I was using or is Intel 80486 just another name for Core2Duo?

Please advise

Artmuzz

 

[Firefly2002]

Hi,

I have the new Penryn Core2Duo 2.4Ghz MacBook Pro and I recently installed Menu Meters.

When I click on the processer percentages on the menu bar, Menu Meters tells me I have 2 Intel 80486 @2.40Ghz.

What is Intel 80486? I thought it was Intel Core2Duo I was using or is Intel 80486 just another name for Core2Duo?

Please advise

Artmuzz

Lol...

A 486 is a pre-Pentium chip they used in the late 80s and very early 1990s.

 

[CWallace]

Menu Meters is evidently suffering from an identity crisis.

Wiki entry on Intel's 80486.

 

[Artmuzz]

Lol...

A 486 is a pre-Pentium chip they used in the late 80s and very early 1990s.

Yikes!!!

I read that Intel 80486 was also for old x86 processors. I thought that the new Core 2 Duo processors were 64bit (x64).

Maybe someone needs to tell the manufacturers of MenuMeters about this problem identifying Core 2 Duo processors.

Does anyone else have MenuMeters identifying the Core 2 Duo processors as the old Intel 80486?


Artmuzz

 

[CWallace]

Yeah, mine show as 80486's as well (MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo). *shrug*

 

[Firefly2002]

Yikes!!!

I read that Intel 80486 was also for old x86 processors. I thought that the new Core 2 Duo processors were 64bit (x64).

Maybe someone needs to tell the manufacturers of MenuMeters about this problem identifying Core 2 Duo processors.

Does anyone else have MenuMeters identifying the Core 2 Duo processors as the old Intel 80486?


Artmuzz

The 80486 were the old x86 processors.

And yes, C2Ds are 64-bit.