Seems to me like he is only saying "looks like the intel is turning out to be true" only because it hasn't come out yet, doesn't mean it will be september. I feel like there is a better possibility of the new Mac Pro coming out in mid July than in September. Mainly because of the whole mid month computer update they have done for the past 3 months in a row. But just like everything else, its only speculation.
Edit: I just found the september thread. It links to an article on hardmac about the availability of the new CPUs and that is its only reason for saying we won't see the new MP til September. However, that article seems irrelevant now that the new CPUs are being seen in many other workstations. And with Apple, they won't have to wait for the later public availability of the CPUs because they would have a contract with Intel and would get the CPUs earlier than other distributors.
The MacPro delay has absolutely nothing to do with CPU shortage or any other CPU related problem for that mater. The local computer store is putting computers together with these new CPU's since the last week of May...This tells me that if a relatively small computer shop is able to get their hands on the cpu's that are supposed to go in the MacPro's , there's some other reason why the MacPro is taking so long.
i'm "guessing" that the machine is just not ready and far from ready, last year Apple has clearly shifted its focus on the Ipad and Iphone leaving no time to come up with a computer that's worthy to be Apple's top of the line high end professional workstation. They could come up with a simple upgrade but even Apple knows that a simple CPU upgrade is not going to cut it, if they did the Imac (also due to update) and Mac Pro would be direct competitors with very few differences in speed, even the fact that the Imac is very limited in terms of expansion wouldn't justify the 2000+$ price change with the mac pro when speed is basically the same.
Also rumors of Apple waiting for Light peak make me giggle, seriously...its going to take Apple
"at least" till 2012 before we are going to see lightpeak in Macs. We don't even have Blue-Ray yet and that's out for a few years now. No way the next release is going to have USB 3.0...forget about it. Especially at the slow pase Apple is going. They are just far behind when it comes to keeping up with other computer manufacturers. Ofcourse Apple is going to stay here and has a very strong market position thanks to the Itoys, on the other hand i say Apple is going to lose a lot of ground when it comes to computers in the future...people are no longer going to take them serious, i mean how can you take a company that charges more than double the price for outdated hardware and still calls it "latest technology" serious. How can you as a professional take a company serious that sticks a 60$ graphics card and 6gb memory, with a 640 GB HDD in a 4000$ computer, or do they make the case out of solid gold? Granted Macs look sweet...but i'd rather have my money's worth in hardware and performance instead of something that just looks good.
Sooner or later Apples policy and way of doing business is going to backfire. One of these days a kid messing around on computers in his garage is going to come up with a way to make a clean and 1-2-3 way to install MacOS flawlessly on a self build computer. That is going to be the end of the Mac. because face it, the only thing keeping Mac alive is the OS. Apple realizes this more than ever...why'd you think they are now a "mobile device company" focusing on Iphones, Ipads and Ipods, simply because they know they have a week position that could fall at any moment, not saying there won't be people buying Macs anymore just saying there will be an absolutely huge number of people going for a hackintosh system that runs just as smooth and just as fast for half the money.
