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nbasila · 25th January 2008

macs ship with the xeon because you can use motherboards with more than one socket (smp)... so you could have two processors, 8 cores, if you wanted.

Xeons often seem to be ahead on bus speed, too... but on server/workstation boards.

25th January 2008	#12
nbasila Gear Head Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 44	macs ship with the xeon because you can use motherboards with more than one socket (smp)... so you could have two processors, 8 cores, if you wanted. Xeons often seem to be ahead on bus speed, too... but on server/workstation boards.