Some Apple news reporting today:

Macworld’s Speedmark tests of Apple’s latest high-end desktop system—the eight-core 2.8GHz Mac Pro released earlier this week—show that it’s notably faster than the four-core 2.6GHz Mac Pro it replaces in Apple’s product line.

Thankfully some other people have provided me with an appropriate collection of responses:

1. In other news 2 pounds of feathers weighs more than a pound of lead.

2. Hmmm, new 8 core 2.8 ghz Mac Pro is faster than the old 2.6 ghz 4 core? Alert the press! This is huge!

3. OH MY SCIENCE

But wait, this astounding piece of news continues…

Even more impressively, the new Mac Pro comes close to matching the speed of the previous-generation eight-core 3GHz Mac Pro model, suggesting that internal changes to the Mac Pro line are bolstering performance.

…so it’s pretty fast. But the real innovation here is that it’s almost as fast as a way older model. Well fuck me, I’ll take 2.