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Finally Power Mac with two Xeon Processors, each containing two dual core processors. (The "Cloverton" Quad Cores are basically two "Woodcrests" stuck together sharing the same 1333 mhz frontside bus. I hope that Nvidea and AMD will update their Video cards.

Apple has dropped the "PowerMac" name in favor of "Mac Pro" for its top end Macintosh workstation class computers.

For clarity, the Mac Pro has been available with two Core 2 Duo Xeon's since its release several months ago. I think you are referring to the possible release of a Dual Quad Core Xeon Mac Pro for a total of 8 processors. Right?

How long do we have to wait until we can claim to be Apple "purists" with PPC-based units, and start flinging around thing like: "I'd get an Intel based Mac, but I'm not gay."?

= )

Swordmaker wrote:
Apple has dropped the "PowerMac" name in favor of "Mac Pro" for its top end Macintosh workstation class computers.
Mistyped. I meant Mac Pro.

For clarity, the Mac Pro has been available with two Core 2 Duo Xeon's since its release several months ago. I think you are referring to the possible release of a Dual Quad Core Xeon Mac Pro for a total of 8 processors. Right?
Yep.
"Woodcrest" was the codename for the Xeon 51xx series of Core 2 based processors. The new "Clovertons" are eventually two low thermal designed Woodcrests coupled in a single chip.

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=qcxeon&page=1

Back in September a Mac Pro was "upgraded" with two pre-release "Clovertons" and the resulting 8-Core Mac Pro worked perfectly. http://anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2832&p=6

I hope that the upgrade is more than just the upgrade of CPUs.