![]() In the end, I let my techno-lust for that little bit of extra speed, plus a desire for more than two cores, win out, and I got the Mac Pro. In my case, it came down to a choice between the 3.06 GHz iMac and the 3.2 GHz Mac Pro. My two cents, but I feel like I know what I am talking about here - I use Photoshop extensively, and ran exactly the sort of tests I am speaking of before buying my current machine (of course I ended up maxing out EVERYTHING, but not everyone will have that luxury). Spend your money on GHz and GB, not number of cores! You will see a direct correlation between the core speed and your observed performance, and pretty much NO correlation between the number of cores and your observed performance. Play around with it on a variety of different Mac Pros and iMacs (and they are only TWO cores). ![]() If you want to prove this to yourself, go to your nearest Apple Store and bring a USB stick with a large layered Photoshop file on it. Whatever your budget is, maximize your core speed and your RAM, not your number of cores. Right now, that is the determining factor for how quickly Photoshop will crank through difficult stuff, assuming you have equal amounts of RAM. I would go with the fastest clock speed you can get.
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