Mac Pros take 20% performance hit when playing audio

[BoredSysAdmin]

Apple's latest Mac Pro, jammed with multicore Nehalem-based Xeon processors, is designed to be a computing beast with power to spare for the most demanding tasks. Since the current Mac Pros became available in October of 2009, though, numerous users have reported a glitch, which appears to be related to audio processing, that causes those Xeons to run much hotter than expected. The problem also saps a surprising amount of performance as well.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/02/nehalem-mac-pros-take-20-performance-hit-when-playing-audio.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

 

[lsiberian]

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/02/nehalem-mac-pros-take-20-performance-hit-when-playing-audio.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Bugs are a part of life.

 

[darien87]

Bugs are a part of life.

Tell me about it. I'm still waiting for a firmware update to make my UMC-1 work right.

 

[jeffsg4mac]

hmm, I am surprised Apple has not addressed the issue. Wait, no I'm not. They have a long history of ignoring bugs and some they never fix. I had sleep issue on an old G4 they never fixed with an update. I am sure they will fix this one though. The MacPro's have a reputation to uphold.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

We haven't had PC/Apple flame wars for a while, lets poor some oil into fire

Especially true for new unibody laptops/iphones/ipads and ipoops etc..

 

[dkane360]

We haven't had PC/Apple flame wars for a while, lets poor some oil into fire

Especially true for new unibody laptops/iphones/ipads and ipoops etc..

But then you still have a lamborghini, and not a mustang

 

[emorphien]

We haven't had PC/Apple flame wars for a while, lets poor some oil into fire

Especially true for new unibody laptops/iphones/ipads and ipoops etc..

The problem I've had with this image, as amusing as it is, is that it implies Macs perform better.