does iphoto take advantage of quad core

[ElFenix]

asking for a friend who is trying to figure out if he can get away with an MBA over an MBP. has new baby, new camera, expects to take many photos.

 

[joshhedge]

asking for a friend who is trying to figure out if he can get away with an MBA over an MBP. has new baby, new camera, expects to take many photos.

Going by the Apple forums, I'm under the impression that iLife is single core only. Although I'm no where near certain.

Edit: Playing around with a 3880*2800 photo with activity monitor and the floating CPU window open, all four cores show increased activity but the third core spikes around twice as high - not sure what that means. Didn't get over 18% CPU usage throughout. The four logical cores, hyper threading, show no activity.

Hope someone can expand on this further.

 

[rugby]

asking for a friend who is trying to figure out if he can get away with an MBA over an MBP. has new baby, new camera, expects to take many photos.

The main worry would be storage capacity with a newborn. Trust me, my wife's iPhoto library is gigantic with 3 kids. Plus videos from iDevices.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Going by the Apple forums, I'm under the impression that iLife is single core only. Although I'm no where near certain.

This is mostly true. Some encode tasks in iMovie will hit multiple cores.

iPhoto is mostly limited by disk I/O anyway, because I hate iPhoto.

 

[ElFenix]

thx