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SPOTLIGHT: The eight-core MacPro
November 14, 2006 — 8:01pm ET
With the launch of new products from Intel, today marks the official beginning of the quad-core era. Those crazy folks over at CNET decided to mark the occasion by installing two quad-core 2.66GHz Xeon 5355 processors in a MacPro, essentially creating an octo-core FrankenMac monster. It's alive! Head over to CNET to check out some impressive benchmarks and a jaw-dropping screenshot of the Mac's CPU Monitor running eight active processor cores.
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