The Next Big Thing

You're a looney as a blue footed booby.

Come on, NoCo. You're not exactly a kid. Surely you remember the incredibly high prices that computers used to sell for (like a $35,000 Sun workstation and $135,000 image processor. or a two-million-dollar mainframe).

You said, "The Xeon E5 processor in the Mac Pro is widely available [emphasis added] in much cheaper computers. I doubt that it can outperform all other computers."

I just want you to show me a cheaper faster computer.

As there are no metrics available for the Mac Pro (at least none that I've seen), no comparisons are available. And the Xeon processor is widely used; go take a look at the Dell website, just for example.

"Faster" is often an ambiguous term for computers. A box can be designed and built for specific applications in which it excels, but it may be no damn good for playing Angry Birds.

I'm sure that the Mac Pro will be an ass-kicking computer, but I wouldn't make any bets that it is the fastest out there.