Mac Pro 12 Core

[milo]

I was talking to an Apple sales rep, and they were saying the Snow Leopard will determine how to spread the load over the cores automatically. So I guess it isn't dependent on the software. The only issue I might have is to boot into 64bit or 32bit.

The sales rep was wrong, it very much depends on the software and an app coded for one core generally won't be helped at all by the OS. That's not uncommon, they seem to give out wrong info all the time.

 

[MT0227]

do you think I could do video editing and other tasks faster with a 6 core 3.33GHz instead? Or the 8 core 2.4GHz?

The majority of programs out there currently don't individually max out 4 cores. So if you do not do a lot of multi-processing amongst several programs at once, the added clock speed of the 6 core will give you a noticeable boost. So, rendering a video in FC would be faster on the 6 core than the 8 core, assuming you don't have several significant CPU intensive jobs running in the background.