The New Mac Pro

Many quad-core processors are composed of two separate dies, which means some cached data has to travel outside the processor to get from core to core. That’s an inefficient way to access information. Enter the Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processor. Its single-die, 64-bit architecture makes 8MB of fully shared L3 cache readily available to each of the four processor cores. The result is fast access to cache data and greater application performance. Combine that with the other technological advances and you get a Mac Pro that’s up to 1.9x faster than the previous generation.

The New iMac

Photos, movies, games, videos, and applications with palettes. Anything you see on the 20- or 24-inch glossy widescreen display will be a pixel-perfect experience. iMac features a flat-panel LCD screen with 1680-by-1050 resolution (20-inch) or 1920-by-1200 resolution (24-inch), giving you vivid colors and breathtaking high-definition clarity. And there’s nothing quite like seeing your life’s events on the big screen, thanks to the new iLife ’09 built into every iMac. Even more eye opening, the 24-inch iMac starts at just $1499.

The New Mac Mini

With a more powerful system architecture, Mac mini is faster than ever. The 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a blazingly fast 1066MHz frontside bus, and 3MB of L2 cache come standard. Which means every square inch of the 6.5-inch square runs at full force.

New machines Tuesday?

Hardmac and OneMoreThing.nl (via Macrumors) are reporting on new iMac and Mac Mini specs to be released tomorrow.
The new iMac models and their corresponding references:
- MB417: Entry level model
- MB418: "Mass market" model
- MB419: high-end model
- MB420: ultimate model
- one 20" model, three 24" models
- 20" 2 GB DDR3 memory, 24" 4 GB DDR3 memory (max 8 GB)
- 1x Display port
- Intel Core 2 Duo (not a quad core): 2.66 Ghz, 2.93 Ghz and 3.06 Ghz
For the Mac mini, the references are the following:
- MB463: entry-level model
- MB464 high-end model
- 5x USB
- 1x FireWire 800 - 1x mini DVI - 1x Display port - Nvidia chipset (like the newest MacBook)
- starting at Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz
- 1 or 2 GB DDR3 memory (max 4 GB)
- 120 GB hard disk (max 320 GB)