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AppleInsider reports that IBM is ready to deliver dual-core PowerPC G5 processors.

What's this mean to us?

POWER.

The article states that these machines may be rolled out in September. It's already been confirmed by Apple that Steve Jobs will be keynoting at the Paris MacWorld. Steve only shows up at these gigs if there is major new hardware to roll out.

More importantly, AppleInsider claims to have seen a product roadmap that included TWO dual core chips, for a four processor Mac. Now, I don't know if Tiger supports four processors, but it'd be awfully nice to have four processors chugging away on our digital video needs. (I don't think it does, and I don't know that we'll see quad processors on Macs until the next major OS rev, but wait and see, wait and see.)

I also believe that these new Macs will be the first to have a PCI Express bus.

What's PCI Express? A new, faster bus than PCI or PCI-X. This will mean that more data can be moved around faster.

How does this help? For one, it means that applications that are presently limited by bus speed performance, such as Final Touch HD, will run much faster. My goal for Final Touch HD is to see it deliver realtime performance out of a BlackMagic Multibridge Extreme over a PCI Express bus in 1080i HD.

And even just dual processors would deliver on this potentially.

-mike