2 processors in a Mac?

[jwolf6589]

Yeah they had processor cards for Apple II's

Apple II processor cards - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Short answer no.
Why Apple doesn't want you to expand and prolong the use of your computer, they want to sell you more gear.
Just look at the lineup. No user replaceable stuff. Not even external GPU's.
The next version of the MacPro will be telling to see if they bless this system with expansion, but if they do you might as well give them your first born to them for the privilege, because it will be ridiculously expensive.

Also Emulation can take place of needing to run stuff.

Well my first year of High School we had a Mac with an Apple II processor card so we could run Apple II software on the Mac. I grew up in elementary school with the Apple II.

 

[jwolf6589]

Yeah they had processor cards for Apple II's

Apple II processor cards - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Short answer no.
Why Apple doesn't want you to expand and prolong the use of your computer, they want to sell you more gear.
Just look at the lineup. No user replaceable stuff. Not even external GPU's.
The next version of the MacPro will be telling to see if they bless this system with expansion, but if they do you might as well give them your first born to them for the privilege, because it will be ridiculously expensive.

Also Emulation can take place of needing to run stuff.

Yes true these days Apple wants one to buy a new Mac. Earlier in my day a certain supplier sold G3 processor cards where one could drastically increase the performance of their Mac. I remember those days.

 

[orionquest]

Yes true these days Apple wants one to buy a new Mac. Earlier in my day a certain supplier sold G3 processor cards where one could drastically increase the performance of their Mac. I remember those days.

I still have a suped up IIci with a motoroloa 040 processor upgrade card (Rocket). A teacher friend of mine used it for years with no issues until he retired and returned it back to me. Some good days.

I understand Apple's reasons to offer hardware with no upgrades, but it really limits DIY people like myself and others who want to do more with the hardware over time.

 

[sam_dean]

Not sure where this thread fits but anyone remember the days when apple used to include 2 processors in a Mac? A PPC CPU and an Intel CPU for the macs with the PC Compatibility card, and before then a 68K CPU and an Apple II Pro DOS or whatever CPU for running Apple II software. The question is could apple do this again? Perhaps the Apple Silicon and also an Intel CPU for running Windows natively?

I had the 2002 Quicksilver Power Mac dual 1GHz the week it came out in January.

R&D of the past few years improved upon those inefficient designs in terms of

- much higher power consumption
- increased latency
- reduced data bandwidth
- burdens software developers with the need to modify their code for that ancient architecture

With UltraFusion CPU core counts will reach 24 while die counts now bumped to 2 to achieve that CPU core count.