hmmmmm... My Mac Pro does 21000 on GeekBench 2...
Apple doesn't realize a laptop will NEVER be able to keep up with a real Pro machine... This makes me even more disappointed that they don't seem to care about their fastest Mac...
From your sig, you have a $8000 + machine. The mac pro market is small these days because computing power has really exploded in capacity but shrunk in size. I owned a 2008 MacPro, a short time later I bought a ridiculous amount of ram for a good but ridiculous price to only realize after about 9 months of owning the machine that it was equally as powerful as some iMacs and Macbook Pro's. The excessive power didn't actually make a noticeable or satisfactory difference in my day tasks in graphic design and developing, it actually felt slow and disappointing at times for what I required a computer for. Not to mention the lack of energy efficiency in MacPros and they are loud and bulky as opposed to something like a iMac or macbook.
In short I sold the whole setup for $5000 via ebay which I somehow made money on and have been buying 13" laptops since. It works better for me as these laptops are now quite good for performing the tasks I want, they have leading technology which is more efficient than say 3 year old mac pros which are priced the same. Sure professionals will still want the best workstation grade setup's such as yourself, but obviously there are a lot more people such as myself who will just buy a laptop or iMac for $1000-2000 and that will be enough for 2 years or more. They don't care so much for the professional market as they made uncomprehending amounts of money from the consumer markets. Apples transition over the past few years is not about "moving to portable" or to iOS its strictly about making money.
Workstation vendors are always out there for those who want to spend tens of thousands on set ups for professional environments, unfortunately apple has made that market its lowest priority. Apple knows very well that people will still buy their professional computers, people such as yourself, and there are a many, who are waiting to spend high end for high performance. Apple is working harder, to convert your everyday user to mac and creating toys to expand revenue as they already have your money the day a new mac pro or matte screen is released.
Unfortunately, what we are seeing is that it is getting worse and this is best seen through the neglect of the macpro, redesigned mbpr and discontinuation of the 17" mbp. The 13" is a good entry level machine as it is affordable and offers many features that aren't seen in 95% of laptops such as digital/anolog sound output, firewire and thunderbolt in addition to what other competitors may have. And today the 13" MBP which is the cheapest it's ever been will run 95% of programs well enough besides high end virtualization, modeling and rendering apps but disregard windows only application because they weren't designed around OSX to begin with. Find me a laptop in the price range that has the features and performance of the new MBP.
