Premiered at
MacWorld New York in 2000, the
multiprocessor G4's are the high end of
Apple's business
offering. Retailing for over $2000, they contain two G4 chips for use in their next generation
operating system,
Mac OS X. In their current
OS (
Mac OS 9.0.4), only certain applications can take advantage of this dual processor setup, mostly
Adobe Photoshop through a special
plugin. They have a few enhancements over regular G4s, but we really wont see the true
SMP power until OS X gets shipped.
As of yesterday,
Mac OS 9.1 is out of a lengthy
beta cycle, and into the public hands. The
finder has been
MP enhanced, and it seems as if
Apple has provided several updates that enable better use of the two processors.
thanks go out to perdedor on this one