New Mac Pro awaits 'Penryn'
October 18th 2007
According to AppleInsider, new Mac Pro towers are ready to roll as soon as Intel can produce the quad-core chips that lie at the heart of Apple's production desktop.
The top-bin Xeons [Penryn], which offer the faster 1600MHz bus and 12MB of L2 cache, will start trickling in around mid-November at speeds of up to 3.2GHz ... Apple, for its part, is ready to rock-and-roll with the new 45-nm Macs whenever Intel can deliver enough of those top-bin chips to trigger a manufacturing ramp.
Previously, IGM reported that Intel will launch Penryn on Nov 11.
Intel has said that its upcoming Xeons will offer an approximate 45 percent speed increase for bandwidth-intensive applications compared to the Clovertown Xeon chips available in today's Mac Pros.
