MacPro: more expansive, much more!
The MacPro has been renewed and now support the Nehalem Xeon processor, but instead of offering more at the same tag price, Apple decided to offer less at the same tag price!!!
The entry-level is now $2899 in Canada with 2.66Ghz x 4-core (8 threads), instead of $2799 for 2.8Ghz x 8-core that is faster in any condition, and the new 8-core begins at $3299 ($500 higher) while being slower than the old 8-core (priced at $2799!), this is just more expansive, and if you want to have better performance than older 8-core 2.8Ghz system, you have to go to 2.66Ghz 8-core priced at $4699, a $1900 premium!!!
Next is the graphic card, a GeForce GT120, that is just the old GeForce 8600GT in disguise, a card that is expected in $500 media center, but not on a $3000+ computer!
Where’s CUDA and OpenCL with such under-powered GPU???