Errikos or William
Can you check if the score is ok :
Rite of Spring
1. Adoration of the Earth (323k) Dario Galimberti
2. The sacrifice (273k) Dario GalimbertiI have read this on: http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/stravinsky.html Uploaded on Mar 15, 2009Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (Sacre du Printemps) - Part 1 of 4 - was performed by Jay Bacal on a single 16GB quad-core Vista 64bit PC computer using only the virtual instrument software from the Vienna Symphonic Library.
So you dont need so much power for this file!
I looked at The Sacrifice on Sibelius from MIDI. The score looks mostly ok as a transcription from MIDI, meaning it's more or less there in terms of pitch (excepting some notes out of range), but with no articulations or dynamics - I don't know whether those should show in notation-from-MIDI, perhaps they are available on piano-roll lanes and CC information when one opens the same file in Logic.
However, on principle, if all of Stravinsky's notation goes into the simulation - as I presume it did in Jay's version - and that computer you mentioned was able to accommodate it, it should fly through Dvorak's score like it was a Satie miniature. It just makes musical sense.
I agree with Daryl in that Apple designed the trash bin with graphics people in mind, who don't really need to "hang" anything off the computer in order to work. It would be nice for them to have considered us as well, perhaps bring out the wonderful Cube out again, something to which we could add components. And yes, a bloody DVD-drive to boot! Why should we clutter the desk with an external unit or two (almost everybody has two)? DVDs and CDs are not obsolete yet. Unless it is going to take them another 5-10 years to update the chassi again...
While we're at it, is it clock speed that is priority, number of cores, RAM, or what is the best combination/hierarchy thereof, for people who work from notation to simulation - think big 40-staves (not tracks) scores with 2-3 voices per staff.