Andrew said:
Ah, yes, you're quite right. On a quick investigation, for some reason the external search I used gave me the *upgrade* price for an existing PC.
That one isn't even remotely the same processor. It has a 533MHz front-size bus, 512KB of cache, a single core, and is based on the obsolete Netburst microarchitecture. The 5150s in the Mac Pro have a 1333MHz front-size bus, 4MB of cache, two cores and are based on the new Core microarchitecture. The Core architecture has much better performance per clock cycle than NetBurst does too, so the fact that the two have the same clock speed is extremely misleading.
(You may be interested to know - or may already know - that the Core microarchitecture was designed by Intel's team in Haifa.)
I was pretty much astonished by the price and performance of the Mac Pro, especially as someone who spends quite a bit of money on Xeon servers to run Windows applications.
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