The new Mac Pros have been receiving a lot of heat about the speed at which they run. Some feel that the Mac Pro does not offer a significant enough speed bump over the previous top of the line Power Mac G5 Quad, pointing towards the speed increases that the other models that were transitioned to Intel architecture saw.

While the speed difference between the new top of the line Mac and the one it replaces might not be staggering, there is no way they could have been. The speed increase that iMacs, minis and portables saw was because of the large gap in technology. All the of the new Intel based Macs have dual cores, that alone is a huge difference, not to mention that many of the old models were running on G4 processors which were a generation behind G5. With the Mac Pro, there is no such huge gap. Both the new machine and the old one are quad core, the G5 was the latest and greatest to come out of the old partnership with IBM, and in its time, the G5 was a monster of a processor.

While the new Mac Pro may not be as big a step in terms of speed, it is nevertheless a big step, in terms of everything else, and especially the price. This complaining that they are only getting a small boost in performance might want to remember that they are getting more for less money than they were paying before… Why all the whining?