besides the usual caveat of unreleased hardware leak, relying on geekbench as a metric for performance is as useful as userbenchmark. semantics rant: on anothe

besides the usual caveat of unreleased hardware leak, relying on geekbench as a metric for performance is as useful as userbenchmark. semantics rant: on another note, where is the line between "consumer" and "prosumer"/"enthusiast" hardware in terms of pricing? over 3000 usd before taxes seems well in the latter camp in my books. on other hand, most enterprise hardware is not optimized for single-core performance. even to my knowledge, the configurations for algo-trading machines are comparable to consumer hardware, if not slower.