[Swordmaker]

Rumors of upgrades to Mac Pros with new Intel processors PING!

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[papertyger]

Apple needs to kick out a consumer laptop that isn’t four times the price of a netbook .

[cabojoe]

Gulftown is a drop in replacement for any LGA 1366 socket. Easy upgrade for existing X58 systems. Apple should be able to drop it into any X58 system, entry level on up.

[SunkenCiv]

...future Mac Pro models... Gulftown... 6 cores and 12 threads for each CPU... 32-nm engraving vs. 45 nm today... Power consumption... slightly lower than the one of current quad core Xeon engraved at 45 nm... a Ethernet 10 Gbits/s port, and those Mac Pro will support 8 and 16 GB RAM modules (vs. 4 GB today) to push the maximal memory that could be installed in the future Mac Pro to 128 GB... early 2010... Snow Leopard should mature enough to... deal with 12 cores, 24 threads... GeForce Fermi or Radeon HD 5870.

Is that *all*? I can order a Dell laptop right now that exceeds all those specs, and it'll only cost $199.99. ;') /sarc

[Wyatt's Torch]

Makes my 2 year old Mac Pro monster seem weak... don’t need a new one yet though!