“The quad-core Apple Mac Pro has set new records in PC Pro’s benchmarks, in the UK’s first independent speed test of the latest Intel-based Mac,” David Fearon reports for PC Pro.
Fearon reports, “The Mac Pro is fitted with two of the top-end workstation-orientated Xeon CPUs. This effectively makes it a quad-core machine, and it’s fabulously fast for CPU-intensive tasks, as long as the application in question is able to use them all.”
“Immediately abandoning the pre-installed copy of Mac OS X, we popped a copy of Windows XP Professional on the machine using Apple’s Boot Camp beta. The results, in terms of pure performance, speaks volumes for the ability of Intel’s new processors – and Apple’s ability to build systems around them,” Fearon reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: In a related article, Car Pro recently tested a Mosler MT900R by immediately abandoning the Mosler-supplied test driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., in favor of one Mr. Sol Goldstein, a 91-year-old retiree who currently resides in an assisted-living community near Boca Vista, Florida. The Mosler MT900R was so fast that even Mr. Goldstein – with left turn signal flashing and despite constantly braking for no known reason – was able to break Car Pro‘s gasoline-powered land speed record.
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I think the MDN post on the PCpro forum (identical with the MDN take) has just been deleted.
“Now I can say it with great confidence and point out that the Dell costs around $800 more when similarly configured to a base Mac Pro with a graphics card upgrade.
These are good times for Mac users. Very good times, indeed.”
That was a month or two back. Now the Dell and the Apple are exactly the same price.
Wait a few more months, Dell will probably be $500 cheaper. That’s exactly what happened with the Macbook vs Dell comparison. Now the similar Dell is much cheaper than the Macbook.
(Actually there’s no similar Macbook to a fast Dell notebook, because there are no core2 Macbooks).
Sorry, English major. It just hasn’t been the same since Webster rewrote the rules.
Slowly slowly catchee monkey.
PC magazine. Windows centric (same publisher as MacUser), so perfectly understandable that they should do this. Probably more relevent to the readers than a review of OS-X that would turn them straight off.
Good job PC Pro.
I see Mr Goldstien every morning. Today he rode the left lane for 5 miles down Granada Boulevard seemingly so he could turn onto the 95 on ramp. It must of been the wrong one though because by the time we reached 25mph at the end of the ramp he stopped.
Dave
That was a month or two back. Now the Dell and the Apple are exactly the same price.
Wait a few more months, Dell will probably be $500 cheaper. That’s exactly what happened with the Macbook vs Dell comparison. Now the similar Dell is much cheaper than the Macbook.
(Actually there’s no similar Macbook to a fast Dell notebook, because there are no core2 Macbooks).
Good for Dell!!! HP and Lenovo have been hitting them hard on the low and medium range models. They have continued to lower all their prices on just about every machine except the highend stuff. And look at the world of hurt they are in. Now that they have been forced by Apple to lower the last of their money makers, what will they do to stay above water? Dell go bye bye.
“Now that they have been forced by Apple to lower the last of their money makers, what will they do to stay above water?”
If Apple can make money selling a machine at that price, Dell can too.
Poor Dell, only making half a billion dollars profit last quarter (Which is bad for Dell, but hardly under water). Yes, they’re going to disappear tomorrow with results like that.