Don't worry, there won't be any refreshes to the Mac Pro line this quarter and the 8-core system won't be seen at the earliest before 4th quarter or 2007.
The entire PC industry is being very careful in the "Core Wars", they don't won't to make the same mistakes that were made during the MHz Wars (every month a new CPU would come out and be faster than last months). As a Mac user, we didn't really get to experience that, but just look at the toll that it took at Dell. The constant changing product lines and the rapidly changing hardware took it's toll on their Support.
However, new MacBook Pros are coming....
The entire PC industry is being very careful in the "Core Wars", they don't won't to make the same mistakes that were made during the MHz Wars (every month a new CPU would come out and be faster than last months). As a Mac user, we didn't really get to experience that, but just look at the toll that it took at Dell. The constant changing product lines and the rapidly changing hardware took it's toll on their Support.
However, new MacBook Pros are coming....
I have a terrible feeling that updated mac pros are going to be announced... Terrible, as I ordered mine last week...![]()
**Homer style "Doh!!!"**
A hardware/software combo for the extreme version would make sense. The ultra high powered 8-core system with a highly optimised final cut.
I can but dream...