Dual Core PowerPC Mac

Apple rolled out two new workstations today based on NVIDIA's Quadro FX
4500 solutions, featuring dual and quad processors. The latest machines
are top-to-bottom NVIDIA machines--making the news a first for both
companies.

The news was announced today in New York by Philip Schiller, Apple's
senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, who said,"The Power Mac G5
Quad delivers the workstation performance our creative and scientific
customers demand. With quad-core processing, a new PCI Express
architecture, and the fastest workstation card from NVIDIA, the new Power
Mac G5 Quad is the most powerful system we've ever made."

The new Apple Power Mac G5 desktops are available in two versions,
featuring dual and quad 2.5 GHz G5 processors and a PCI Express
architecture. This is the first Apple platform ever available with four x16
PCI-E slots capable of driving up to 5 Apple 30" dual-link HD Cinema
Displays or eight standard single-link displays. Apple is touting this as "the
first ever professional graphics on an Apple platform," running under a
64-bit OS.

This was really a celebration day for Macintosh artists around the world.
Apple also announced a professional photography tool Aperture today: a
major application with hefty system requirements.