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CONFIRMED: New Mac Pro's January 15th, 2008
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Apple will kick off the new year with more than just a computer upgrade, according to a rumor from MacBidouille.
The January 15th keynote for IDG's Macworld San Francisco expo will see Mac Pros using new 45-nanometer, quad-core Xeons based on Intel's Penryn architecture, the French outlet reports -- systems which AppleInsider said earlier this year were dependent on Intel's supply of new processors before manufacturing could begin, and which would be available by the early 2008 event. These will clock up to the predicted 3.2GHz and use new video cards, including NVIDIA's latest Quadro FX workstation models.
A Blu-ray drive should also be an option, the site claims.
As significant as these updates may be, the report also cites sources which point to the release of Mac OS X 10.5.2 as being instrumental to the hardware upgrade. Apple software engineers are reworking Leopard code to optimize it for the SSE4 instructions found within Penryn and the architecture as a whole, both of which promise speed gains above and beyond clock speed boosts.
This update will be the most significant interim upgrade for Mac OS X ever made by Apple, according to the rumor.
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So, RUMORED, not confirmed?
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Such a vague and non-specific rumor. Useless.
I'll cut and paste it into a MacNN forum in 2010 and it'll still be true (except change Penryn to whatever Intel's new chip will be called).
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So you couldn't keep it to the rumor sites?
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Originally Posted by bballe336 
So you couldn't keep it to the rumor sites?
What is even worse is that Apple Insider is reporting what another rumor site reported.
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Rumor indeed. However, when comparing Mac rumor sites, MacBidouille has a pretty solid track record.
BTW... Why is this thread in The Lounge?
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I like chicken
I like liver
Meow Mix, Meow Mix
Please de-liv-er
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It showed and still shows as '65' -- the mac pro section.
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
BTW... Why is this thread in The Lounge?
BTW... Why hasn't this thread been locked? 
The title is misleading and this specific rumor has been debated already in at least two other threads.
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