Apple intros dual-core Power Macs, renovates Power Books

Apple today announced what is generally considered the final major overhaul for the firm's desktop computers before the transition to an Intel platform will begin. Apple's new Power Mac desktop family dumps single-core systems in favor of dual-core machines. The lineup consists of three new dual-core models with one model being equipped with two dual-core processors an effectively four physical processor cores.

The attention getter of the renovated product family is the "Power Mac G5 Quad," which is equipped with two dual-core 2.5 GHz G5 processors, 512 MByte DDR2 memory, a 250 GByte harddrive, an Nvidia GeForce 6600 graphics card and a 16x DVD burner. Apple claims that the system will bring performance improvements of about 60 percent in Final Cut Pro, 43 percent in Photoshop, and 69 percent in After Effects when compared to a 2.7 GHz dual-core G5 system.

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