8 Core now standard on the Mac Pro

Well I thought they'd be out before Christmas but Apple decided to release them the week after! Slap bang in the middle of CES and just before Macworld - a class act!

Based on the new Intel 45nm quad-core Stoakley (Penryn) processors at up to 3.2ghz, these new machines are smoking fast. Add in 12MB L2 cache per processor and 1600MHz dual independent frontside buses, Apple have created a new system architecture to boost performance even further stating up to 2x faster than the previous standard-configuration Mac Pro (well as it's now 8 core as standard and the previous was 4-core....)

And yes, I'll be rattling the piggy bank and hopefully stumping up the cash for one of these beauties just after Macworld (unless priorities change based on what's released at Macworld!)

At the time of this post the Apple UK store is till down so we don't know what the damage in terms of cost will be but you can check out the specs here.

I'm not sure how much disruption this will cause to CES (if any) but how many other companies would make such a major release as this merely by issuing a Press Release.

In addition to the Mac Pro update, Apple have also made significant updates to the xserve server, including support for 8 core xserves.

Well at least that's the Pro updates out of the way for next week so Apple can concentrate on the consumer side of things!

Exciting times!

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