Yeah true. I won’t be moving from apple hardware for the time being; it’s reliable, well built and the OS is great.
You would indeed imagine that in a race, xeons would beat i7, I just wonder at what point the gap isn’t big enough for a lot of people to not bother and purchase an imac instead. Obviously apple want people to spend as much as possible with them, so the incentive to purchase additional keyboard, mouse and monitors needs to be high – this would be a clear performance difference between the two models.
I eagerly await some sort of comparison test between the mac pro and the imac.