If you went Hexacore why did you?

[steffi]

Just curious on folks who ordered 2010 Hexacores. Are you happy with yours?

I'm thinking very seriously about picking up a refurb and didn't want to go to the extra expense of the 2.93 Dual although could be talked into it if it's significantly more future proof having a board that takes 2 CPUs.

 

[w00tini]

for me it was the fastest default clock speed offering apple had. I don't need cores as much as I need speed for gaming and light video work.

plus, lots of good things come in sixes like beer

 

[Vylen]

Fastest processor speed and have no real need for so many cores/threads.

While, for my use, compiling programs increases linearly with each core/thread, and it would increase some photo processing, it's really not worth it since program compilation doesn't take *that* long and the same with photos.

Plus, it's much cheaper than going 12-core

 

[brentsg]

It's excellent for single threaded apps, excellent for running multiple virtual machines, and it's fantastic for video encoding!