An interesting argument, but even if the 8-core iPad processor could achieve somewhat higher performance without thermal/power constraints, it's nowhere near en

An interesting argument, but even if the 8-core iPad processor could achieve somewhat higher performance without thermal/power constraints, it's nowhere near enough to bridge that multi-core score performance gap. Adding more cores isn't necessarily an option for Apple yet either, considering that (from what I understand) their yields are relatively low because it's hard to make chips that large on such a small node. Even more cores means lower yields and greater costs. I'm not saying the iMac Pro won't get there, but I highly doubt it will be a part of this first wave.