Stefan Mileschin

Also warns that you could end up with a slower computer

Fruity cargo cult Apple has issued some specs of its expensive giant cheese grater Mac Pro and has made the mistake of being a little too honest about what the $6,000 machine can do.

The specs were spotted by the Verge. There are the expected marketing claims such as “cures cancer” and “is million times faster than a standard PC which has not been switched on” (ok we made those claims up) but there is also some rather important information which you might want to know before splashing out on the thing.

Apple makes a point to note that its pricier, higher core count Xeon processors offer “increased multithreaded performance” at the expense of “decreased base clock”. The white paper specifically tells customers that “it is important to know if your primary applications can scale to higher core counts to get maximum performance from top-end Xeon processors”. In other words: make sure you can use those extra cores, or you’ll get stuck with a slower computer.

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