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Absurd. It's absurd.
All the new iMac ship with quad-core, non-Hyperthreaded Intel Core i5 processors. The 15" and 17" MacBook Pros ship with Hyperthreaded Core i7 processors. If the benchmark test is optimised for multi-core processing then 8 virtual cores is going to outgun 4 physical cores.
They're all bloody quick.
All the new iMac ship with quad-core, non-Hyperthreaded Intel Core i5 processors. The 15" and 17" MacBook Pros ship with Hyperthreaded Core i7 processors. If the benchmark test is optimised for multi-core processing then 8 virtual cores is going to outgun 4 physical cores.
They're all bloody quick.
And it's also mostly irrelevant, except as a method to compare CPUs (and even then it has weaknesses). For non-hyperthreaded tasks that take advantage of a higher CPU speed, the i5 iMacs will do much better.
Well, the people running Apple think it's OK, 99% of the consumers think it's OK, and all the stockholders aren't complaining.
Why are you blaming Apple for a chip that Intel makes? All the iMacs are better than last year's models, especially since the low end have gone quad-core.
You are comparing i5 to i7 chips, blame intel, they are the ones raising prices across the board for the last two years.
iMac isn't a powerhouse computer. You're comparing a average user desktop to a designer, or editor's laptop. Is there something you want to do with an iMac that it can't because it runs to slow of a Geekbench? Have you used the new Macbook Air? The Geekbench of that thing is terrible but it's one of the fastest everyday task computer I have ever used.