Lets look at the big picture here: MacWorld is in January, the Mac Pro’s are need for a CPU bump, and Intel is planning on releasing new Xeon server CPUs early next year. It sure looks good that the Mac Pro’s should receive a CPU upgrade soon but the question becomes, what CPU will Steve-O slap in the the Mac Pro?
Chances are Apple will stick with the Xeon line up and the Core i7, or Nehalem, is the next logical step-up. Even though this upcoming CPU runs at comparable clock speeds as the current generation, benchmarks have soon a reasonable performance boost. Depending on the rest of MacWorld’s news, this might get pushed to a simple press release later on or it could be featured along with other Mac Pro upgrades - Blu-ray burner, anyone?
I do hope that they will be updating their current line of MacPros to the i7 Core. I wanted to buy one but decided to wait to for the i7. I main concern will be the price (hopefully it will not go up) as the cost of the i7 and MOBO is expensive
I hope that they are out soon into the new year. My company is going to invest in a New Mac pro , so I have insisted that we hold off until the i7 versions are out. We will be running OS 10 and Windows on it for video production apps, FCP and the Adobe CS4.
Come out with it already! If not then I’m going to have to settle for a PC.
That will probably be in march then…….2 bad…i’m waiting as well….and it doesn’t look good :(