[antiRepublicrat]

Wow! First we find that dual-core PPC 970MPs are at Apple for testing right now, then there's plans for doing partitioning on a desktop chip?! I think Apple hitched its wagon to the right chip manufacturer this time.

[Swordmaker]

Next technology for Macintosh PING!

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[ProudVet77]

Actually they have been with the better chip company from the get go. They started out with the Motorola 68/6900 series. That was a screamer for it's time. IIRC, they've been RISC ever since. Would have been good if Apple worked with DEC when it first introduced the Alpha, but Bob Palmer CEO and chief fool at DEC wanted to get a 64 bit version of windows server. VMS was converted in a just a few months, but BP kept waiting for Gates to get the 64 bit version of Windows (NT5.0?) for 2+years. Gates put Palmer and DEC out of business.

[X_CDN_EH]

It's not exactly new, been happening on S390 and Z/OS for 20 years, called PR/SM where the hardware can be partitioned to assign different weights to the various cpus, AKA logical partitions, or LPARs.

[Straight Vermonter]

I am watching these chips being tested right now.

[SunkenCiv]

"technology that lets it run multiple operating systems simultaneously"

Obviously something that will come in handy around the house here... ;')

[tortoise]

Feh. Apple needs to focus on the important basics, like an integrated memory controller, a decent ccNUMA implementation, and similar (i.e. all the stuff the Power-series processors have). If you don't have these, partitioning is just a marketing buzzword side-show. Vastly superior system architecture is why the Opterons mop the floor with the PPC970 when it comes to enterprise server ops (and most supercomputing benchmarks) despite the fact that they nominally run at about the same instruction dispatch speed.

Less shiny wrapping and more meat please.