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robin wrote:

gomi wrote:http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/

See above

yah i was on page 3 when i replied

ha ha

gomi wrote:
yah i was on page 3 when i replied

ha ha

heh heh

MrYellow wrote:Rebooting all the time just to use a program..... Used to have to do that
for a few things where I had specially tweaked hardware profiles but got
more CPU now...... I think you'd probably find it better to just run 2
computers with KVM, a cheap PC for a few progs wouldn't set you back
much at all.

-Ben

That's what I was planning on doing until a friend decided to pretty much give me his dual 2.5 G5 for next to nothing. So being able to boot XP is going to be really cool on the merom macbook I buy in early Fall! That way I can use XP synths etc.., yet still use certain live plug ins like Musolomo that are only out for mac, when I play live with Live.

Vector execution units

From the perspective of Apple fans who were vexed by the loss of the much-loved AltiVec, one Core's most significant improvements over its predecessors is in the area vector processing, or SIMD.

As noted above, 128-bit floating-point arithmetic operations go into the two FADD/VFADD and FMUL/VFMUL pipelines. So these two units handle both vector and scalar floating-point operations. Both of these pipelines are also capable of doing floating-point and vector register moves. Finally, I'm guessing that the FMUL/VFMUL pipeline also does vector square root operations.

For integer vector operations (64-bit MMX instructions, and 128-bit SSE integer instructions), the picture is a bit murkier. From what I've been able to gather, the vector integer units on ports 0 and 1 appear to have been retained and widened to 128 bits for the purposes of single-cycle 128-bit vector integer computation. I'm currently assuming that, as with the PIII, one unit is a 128-bit VALU/shift unit and the other is a 128-bit VALU/multiply unit.

There's a fifth 128-bit vector pipeline on port 2, about which little is known except that it does vector register moves. I suspect that it also handles SSE shuffle operations (hence the name VSHUF I've assigned it) and vector reciprocal and reciprocal square root operations. This unit would be the rough equivalent of the AltiVec vector permute unit that exists on the PowerPC G4 and 970. (For a handy discussion of AltiVec vector permute and SSE shuffle instruction equivalences, see this Apple reference page.)

what does that mean in english ?

RopeyPunter wrote:what does that mean in english ?

i dunno!

RopeyPunter wrote:what does that mean in english ?

It means he read Ars Technica's article on Intel's Core architecture and couldn't make enough sense of it to actually nick something that would make sense in this context...

forge wrote:

snowtires wrote:now what they need to do is, when they get the quad core mactels, figure out a way to boot up both osx and xp at the same time, each using one dual processor a piece. you could run everything you wanted in osx and have the xp running gigasampler or fruity loops! oh man, i haven't used fruity loops in years.

I'm really interested about this - what exactly does "universal binary" mean? it kind of suggests that you can run either or - are we moving towards a setup where you can just run any components of either OS all at the same time - not even bother loading the OSX or Windows shell and just load live plus the plug-ins you want weather they are mac or PC - so if the PC version of live runs better then run it and eventually there will only be "universal binary" and no mac or PC version

does anyone know how likely that is?

an application that is a "universal binary" means that it can run on both PPC and intel-based MacIntosh hardware running OSX 10.3.9 or higher. at this point in the space-time continuum, it bears no relevance towards Windows OS, AFAIK.

)hm)

noisetonepause wrote:

RopeyPunter wrote:what does that mean in english ?

It means he read Ars Technica's article on Intel's Core architecture and couldn't make enough sense of it to actually nick something that would make sense in this context...

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gomi wrote:

noisetonepause wrote:

RopeyPunter wrote:what does that mean in english ?

It means he read Ars Technica's article on Intel's Core architecture and couldn't make enough sense of it to actually nick something that would make sense in this context...

neener neeener neeener

You do know that if this was college you'd be kicked out for this

noisetonepause wrote:

gomi wrote:

noisetonepause wrote: It means he read Ars Technica's article on Intel's Core architecture and couldn't make enough sense of it to actually nick something that would make sense in this context...

neener neeener neeener

You do know that if this was college you'd be kicked out for this

If this was college, you would be too drunk to be bothered

noisetonepause wrote: You do know that if this was college you'd be kicked out for this

college is for sissies.

sweetjesus wrote:virtualization

in 2 years nothing will be the same

can you elaborate?

gomi wrote:

noisetonepause wrote: You do know that if this was college you'd be kicked out for this

college is for sissies.

Well, my member title on the SOS forum is Blouse Wearing Nancy...