We use an iMac on the studio floor, as it's a small and convenient tethering computer, and for the most part it works well...although if we get too many images in a folder, things can get a bit dodgy. Over the past couple of days there have been a few benchmark articles about the new i7 processor version of the iMac, and it seems to suggest some pretty impressive performance gains. From Gizmodo:
"In short, any task we tried that expressly was written to either a) take advantage of multiple cores, or, take advantage of multiple cores through Snow Leopard's multicore middleware, Grand Central Dispatch, were 2 to 3 times faster."
Later on in the article, in a comparison of single threaded applications, the i7 seemed comparable in speed to it's higher clocked core 2 duo brethren, not really much faster.
So my question is to anyone that's a bigger geek than I...is phocus going to take advantage of these aspects of the new iMac i7?
Barry
