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Display your CPU's true speed
Authored by: zipping on Jan 04, '04 08:00:14AM

Yeah, but after a while it goes back to being 677 Mhz. Check and see !

I don't buy what Apple is trying to tell us here...."Don't pay attention to the clock speed returned in the terminal..." What are they hiding from us. Why is my 800 MHz PowerBook G4 really returning 677 MHz. Maybe they just want to avoid a class action? I want this problem resolved Now! Proof, not chatter !

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Display your CPU's true speed
Authored by: nvannote on Jan 15, '04 03:56:22PM

I noticed this as well.

But, I would take their word on it. I whipped up a quick and dirty console application to get the value straight from the underlying BSD API. It does indeed return the correct cpu frequency, no matter what the sysctl utility says.

It would be an easy matter to check the Darwin source to see where the sysctl utility is going wrong.

Regards,

Neil Van Note



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