To all of you who're disappointed by this not being a "proper Pro": "4x larger L2 cache" and "2x wider AVX" suggest they're going to use the upcoming i9 X-seri

To all of you who're disappointed by this not being a "proper Pro": "4x larger L2 cache" and "2x wider AVX" suggest they're going to use the upcoming i9 X-series chips [1] that are based on Skylake design with ~15% better instructions-per-clock (IPC) performance than Broadwell-based Xeons, plus they'll clock much higher than Xeons too: with turbo boost up to 4.5Ghz for even the 10-core model!. Quad channel DDR4 at 2666Mhz is also an improvement. All this promises a much better single-thread performance vs the current Pro line. IMO that's insane amount of power, it can even probably handle Slack desktop client! :) [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/11464/intel-announces-skylakex-bringing-18core-hcc-silicon-to-consumers-for-1999 http://www.anandtech.com/show/11464/intel-announces-skylakex...