And finally, there's the poor, neglected Mac Pro. In recent history, the Mac Pro has used Xeon processors, and . But there are no signs from Apple that new Mac Pros are imminent, even though there . Macworld Lab found that a 27-inch 3.4GHz Core i7 iMac with an SSD is than a BTO 3.33GHz Xeon Westmere six-core Mac Pro, and if a new Ivy Bridge iMac is released before a new Mac Pro, the performance gap between the iMac and the Mac Pro will only widen. Perhaps that's Apple's plan all along.