8-Core Mac Pros
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The Mac Pro: now with 8-cores.
The config: Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
The price: $1.5 grand over the base ‘Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon’ config
Shipping now, but no other price drops.
I don’t think that Photoshop or Final Cut can even effectively utilize 8 cores at once so I can’t see how this will be worth it except for the most demanding users doing 3D rendering and using scientific apps (for extremely multithreaded number crunching). Even Apple’s tests only show the 8-core model as being “up to 1.4 times as fast” as a 4-core 3.0 GHz machine.
(Via Engadget.)