That test was the Mbox Pro. Which is still impressive. But the new Avid HD interfaces are a whole nother level. Everyone who's heard them vs. the old HD interfaces has been blown away.
By the way, Apogee had nothing to do with designing these interfaces.
One other thing about these new HD interfaces, is that because of the advanced design, they are lower latency, in that they actually convert the audio to digital faster than the old ones, and other current ones.
By the way, here's a post from just this morning from an experienced HD user who just switched to the new HD IO (he mistakenly calls it the 888, but don't get confused):
http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=311664