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Time for Apple to give a real upgrade so you know you are getting something for the premium price.
(Of course, an iMac with an SSD comes pretty close to a Mac Pro price-wise. But still: the top level computer should be considerably faster than the iMac).
Putting an SSD in the MP (which is fairly easy, and you can use cheaper faster models than Apple uses) should put it over the top. Still, it's impressive. Clockspeed still matters.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
Their test won't show the differences between the systems. Any test that can be multithreaded is also disk bound and any test that isn't disk bound is run in series. And the jumping between applications nature of the test makes it very read io dependent. So your basically comparing a ssd to a hd which everyone and their uncle knows about by now.
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