macbook intel core 2 duo

conchubhar1

Right so my macbook has 2ghz and is dual core.

Under about this mac it says: ''number of processors = 1'' ''number of cores = 2''.

How does that work? How does the cores work?? Is it one processor split in 2? How is that better?

Does it mean there is technically 4gz? 2 by 2 ghz.

pvik00

conchubhar1 wrote: »

Right so my macbook has 2ghz and is dual core.

Under about this mac it says: ''number of processors = 1'' ''number of cores = 2''.

How does that work? How does the cores work?? Is it one processor split in 2? How is that better?

Does it mean there is technically 4gz? 2 by 2 ghz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core

conchubhar1

''two cpus''?

one harddrive?

flywheel

if programmed correctly an application can have elements processed together in parallel on a multi-core CPU (rather than in one after the other on a single core CPU), and should be more efficient with speed and resources...

if you want to look into it more google terms like multicore, cpu, threads, thredded, parallel...

check out this link for some information on how Snow Leopard will manage multicore processing when the new OS comes out:
http://www.apple.com/ie/macosx/technology/#grandcentral

StopNotWorking

Ok first of all no it is not 4Ghz, I hate looking on ebay for stuff and having 12Ghz cpus being advertised.

It is two 2Ghz processors. It's like having two.. ovens. One huge oven(1 fast core) wont cook something faster, it'll just burn it. Two small ovens(2 cores/core2duo) can however cook twice as much without burning anything. Make sense?

The processor is the bakery, the cores are the ovens. The processor is the whole thing but without the ovens the bakery would be useless.

You would see two processors in a mac pro, those beasts with 2 xeon quad-core processors. In the case of a mac pro it would be 2 processors with 4 cores each.

Understandy?

I'm horrible at examples I know..

whiterebel

StopNotWorking wrote: »

Ok first of all no it is not 4Ghz, I hate looking on ebay for stuff and having 12Ghz cpus being advertised.

It is two 2Ghz processors. It's like having two.. ovens. One huge oven(1 fast core) wont cook something faster, it'll just burn it. Two small ovens(2 cores/core2duo) can however cook twice as much without burning anything. Make sense?

The processor is the bakery, the cores are the ovens. The processor is the whole thing but without the ovens the bakery would be useless.

You would see two processors in a mac pro, those beasts with 2 xeon quad-core processors. In the case of a mac pro it would be 2 processors with 4 cores each.

Understandy?

I'm horrible at examples I know..

Au contraire, the ovens one is genius, and until you trademark it, I'll be using it......:D

conchubhar1

ye - it seemed a little childish at first

but its a very good analogy!!!!!

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so it can do two things at once - any disadvantages or does it half anything else etc?