[rescue] Apple WWDC Summary

vance at neurotica.com vance at neurotica.com
Wed Jun 25 20:10:58 CDT 2003


On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, William Enestvedt wrote:

> > What I want to know is wether the single-CPU systems can be upgraded
> > to dual-CPU with the simple addition of a CPU module. Or, in other
> > words, is the motherboard the same across all systems and only the CPU
> > modules different - or is a single-cpu system's mainboard incapable of
> > supporting a second CPU.
> >
>    Different front-side bus depending on the CPUs, if I recall, which
> doesn't bode well for a simple swap. Then again, it's The Steve...

Unless you put things like the PCI bus controller and memory controller
and stuff like that on the CPU module board.

Peace...  Sridhar



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