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The Retina MacBook Pro is light on expandability and connectors, so if you want a fast system with FireWire 800, Thunderbolt, USB 3.0, an optical drive and built-in gigabit ethernet, the new non-retina MacBook Pro might be a better bet. Again, faster flash memory and faster (though fewer) processing cores helps the Retina laptop best the 12-core Mac Pro in all but our three most processor-intensive tasks: Cinebench CPU, MathematicaMark 8, and Handbrake. The Retina MacBook Pro is also faster overall than the new 12-core Mac Pro, with a 27 percent higher Speedmark 7 score. The quad core Mac Pro was faster in just three of our tests: iMovie export (16.9 percent), Portal 2 (11.6 percent), and Cinebench’s OpenGL tests (2.5 percent). The performance from the Retina MacBook Pro’s flash memory crushes the internal hard drive of the Mac Pro the Retina MacBook Pro completed the file duplication and file unzip test 65 percent faster than the new low-end Mac Pro. The Retina MacBook Pro is 30 percent faster overall than the new quad-core Mac Pro. Neither Mac Pro models are able to surpass the overall score of the new 2.6GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro with Retina display.
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The 2010 12-core Mac Pro is 7 percent faster in overall performance, 4 percent faster in MathematicaMark, 12 percent faster in our Handbrake encode test, 8 percent faster in the Cinebench CPU test and 13 percent faster in Cinebench’s OpenGL test. While that system cost $4999, it outperforms the new $3799 12-core Mac Pro. A 2010 12-core 2.66GHz Mac Pro was considered a configure-to-order option in some Apple documents, but showed up as one of three standard configurations on the Apple Store’s Mac Pro page. This isn’t the first 12-core system that Apple has ever shipped.
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With 12 cores-and the ability to address 24 virtual cores-the 12-core 2.4GHz Mac Pro is 28 percent faster than the new quad-core 3.2GHz Mac Pro in our Handbrake encode test, 52 percent faster in our Cinebench CPU test, and 81 percent faster in our MathematicaMark 8 test.
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Not surprsingly, the 12-core Mac Pro excels with software that’s designed to take advantage of multiple cores. And even though they use the same graphics cards with the same 1GB of video memory, the 3.2GHz quad core Mac Pro is 21 percent faster in our Cinebench OpenGL test and 22 percent faster in our Portal 2 tests. The new quad-core 3.2GHz Mac Pro is faster than the new 12-core 2.4GHz Mac Pro in 11 of our 16 individual tests, including our iTunes encode test (17 percent faster), Pages import (16 percent faster), iMovie import test (16 percent faster), and our file compression test (15 percent faster). The new 12-core 2.4GHz Mac Pro is 10 percent faster overall than the 2010 eight-core 2.4GHz Xeon Mac Pro, and 31 percent faster from the 2009 eight-core 2.26GHz Xeon Mac Pro.Īs we’ve seen many times in the past, a system having fewer but faster processing cores will outperform (in all but a few of our tests) a system with more cores that run at a slower speed. Both systems have 7200-rpm 1TB hard drives and ATI Radeon HD 5770 PCI Express graphics cards with 1GB of video memory. The £3,099 Mac Pro has a pair of 6-core 2.4GHz Xeon E5645 processors, and 12GB of 1333 DDR3 RAM. The new low-end Mac Pro costs £2,049 and comes with a 3.2GHz quad-core Xeon W3565 processor and 6GB of 1066 DDR3 RAM.
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And while the Macworld Lab’s test results show the new Mac Pros to be considerably faster than those systems the new Mac Pros replace, it is hard to swallow new “pro” systems that lack Apple’s fastest connection, Thunderbolt, released on MacBook Pros 16 months ago, and USB 3.0 support that arrived on the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. The new Mac Pros use the same, highly-upgradable case design, the same graphics cards, and even the same version of USB as the last iteration. The new Mac Pros released at WWDC 2012 represent a speed bump, plain and simple. In an email response to a concerned Mac Pro user, Apple CEO Tim Cook promised that the company was working “on something really great for later next year.”
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In the nearly two years since the last update to the Mac Pro, you may have let your imagination go and allowed yourself to dream of a Mac Pro with an updated case design and the latest in peripheral connection ports. If you were looking for a bright side to Apple’s underwhelming updates to its Mac Pro line of tower computers, it would have to be that Apple hasn’t forgotten that it makes such a product.