apple does not disappoint when it comes to product announcements. independent of any major mac event, apple has sprung several very significant products in the last several weeks. first we got the new imac G5 and video ipod. today the second shoe falls on the powermac G5 quad, a behemoth of a system. you get four processors, and i’m sure several more virtual processors for a great price.
finally the partnership with NVIDIA and apple pays off with the availability of professional graphics cards. we say a farewell to the geforce line and welcome the quadro PCIe chipsets to the mac. now i believe 3D software will work on par with wintel systems and linux systems.
november 2005 cannot come soon enough to get my hands on one of these fantastic products. the intel product line is a long ways away. i predict sometime during macworld SF 2007 with the intel chipsets inside the powermac. portable systems will get intel inside by june 2006.