Mac Pro Nehalem 2.93 GHz

I tested late into the night last night with the 2.93GHz Mac Pro Nehalem and my existing 2.8GHz 2008 Mac Pro. Both machines are booting off the Intel X25-M solid state drive and both are using a 4-way RAID stripe of 1TB Western Digital RE-3 hard drives.

I have some very interesting results coming, and I strongly recommend waiting to see them before making any purchase decisions. In the meantime, please review Optimizing Your Applications.

I will be publishing a large batch of results tonight, with something for everyone but especially photographers, probably around 10pm PST, possibly earlier.

Genuine Fractals 6
Superb utilization of all 16 CPU cores

Canon Digital Photo Professional
Minimal (brain-dead) utilization of the 16-cores