We refer to the era of Apple’s ill-fated attempt at licensing Mac OS to outside hardware companies as “the Mac clone era,” but that word- clone-can give a mistaken impression. My iMac Pro has eight.īut there was a time when the only Mac that supported multiprocessing wasn’t a Mac at all, but an extremely expensive workstation from a small town in northeastern Georgia. Today, the chips that drive all of Apple’s products have multiple processing cores, able to do work in parallel. 20 Macs For 2020: #15 – DayStar Genesis MPĭayStar Genesis MP (from Macworld magazine).
