As I understand it, the G5 iMac is truly 64-bit, and the new Merom iMacs only have a 64-bit CPU, but the chipset is only 32-bit. What difference will the 64-bit Santa Rosa chipset make? What are the advantages? Thanks a lot.
treblah said:Seeing as how the iMac only supports 3GB of RAM, does it really matter?
treblah said:Seeing as how the iMac only supports 3GB of RAM, does it really matter?
robbieduncan said:This is probably being caused by the chipset. Santa Roso would allow more than 4Gb of RAM (the 3Gb is that you need some memory space left to memory-map peripherals into).
Merom will be given a faster FSB on the Santa Rosa platform (most likely 800MHz or 1066MHz), but will otherwise remain unchanged from what launches later this year.