{"id":4868,"date":"2009-11-08T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2009-11-08T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T21:24:34","slug":"newsletter-issue-519-are-speed-bumps-hitting-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2009\/11\/newsletter-issue-519-are-speed-bumps-hitting-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #519: Are Speed Bumps Hitting the Wall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In introducing the original Power Mac G5 at the WWDC in 2003, Steve Jobs said the brilliant engineers at IBM would have a 3GHz version within a year&#8217;s time. As you know, that never happened, and, a mere two years later, Apple signed with Intel and dumped the PowerPC for good.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it&#8217;s now six years after being presented with the promise of a 3GHz Mac, and we&#8217;ve barely exceeded that figure. The highest speed rating available for the recently introduced 27-inch iMac is a build-to-order configuration sporting a 3.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. But that&#8217;s actually NOT the most powerful chip Apple is offering. That honor goes to a custom configuration of the Mac Pro that provides a pair of 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, an upgrade that nearly doubles the price of the computer.<\/p>\n<p>So just what&#8217;s going on here with all these processor clock speeds?<\/p>\n<p>You see, Intel realized some years back that you could no longer simply increase a chip&#8217;s clock speed to get better performance. The late and not lamented Pentium 4 came in versions with even higher ratings, but delivered little more than heat and excessive power consumption. They really didn&#8217;t perform all that much better in the real world, and forget about squeezing them into a note-book, where they&#8217;d seem almost hot enough to boil an egg.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2009\/11\/newsletter-issue-519\/#egg\">Continue Reading\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In introducing the original Power Mac G5 at the WWDC in 2003, Steve Jobs said the brilliant engineers at IBM would have a 3GHz version within a year&#8217;s time. As you know, that never happened, and, a mere two years later, Apple signed with Intel and dumped the PowerPC for good. 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