The Power Mac stands as the last PPC Mac

January 07 is out of the question given the Jobs promise/credibility factor. MacPro is very likely to be the name given recent trademarking. My only concern is that we are not looking at a later holiday '06 release to allow software compatibility issues to be worked out. August WWDC launch makes more sense - if only to begin orders and to fire up the pro community. That's how I'd do it, but hey - nobody asks me. I'm just sitting here salivating with my credit card drawn and poised. I also kinda dig #5's TMA-1 design...

I think it will be called the mac pro. I think that will have 2 dual core proccessors with HT running at 3ghz or above. Maybe 4 ghz if we are lucky. I remember Steve Jobs saying something about how dissapointed that the Power PC chips didn't reach 3 ghz even when they promised it would. Although it would be pretty cool if they put a three or four core chip in the succesor to the powermac. And since you can't really put a iSight in a power mac, how about in the apple cinema displays? Most powermac setups i have seen have an apple cinema display, so it would make sense to include it in the cinema display. And then mac minis could have a isight. And for the peopl e who put their macbooks and macbook pros plugged in at home to a monitor they can still video chat with the lid closed. i would like to see that from apple.

only the stongest and fastest survive.

I reackon the Intel version of the PowerMac G5 will have to have a new case design. since it's current design is based around the chips and their cooling requirements (The heatsink is HUGE).

I have a dual 2.7Ghz model that will no doubt last me a couple of years yet, but I'd love to see the case shrink a good bit... and please let the fans be quieter!

Additionally, a couple more ports wouldn't go amiss, having three USB 2, one FireWire 400 and two FireWire 800 isn't too generous.

Cheers;
Poncho

There is almost zero percent chance that the MacPro will slip beyond WWDC which is in August of this year. It is also highly unlikely that Apple will need to take additional time to redesign their chasis after Intel launches their new chips. You can bet your a$$ that Apple is not only well aware of the heat issues with the next generation Core Duos, but that they are also in posession of samples of them for testing their next line of machines.

Also, doesn't the forthcoming Conroe/Merom line (so called Core 2) in single and dual core versions support EM64T, which are 64 bit extensions to the x86 architecture? I am not sure, but I was supposing that Core 2 is a 64 bit chip in a true sense, albeit extended intruction set, as opposed to Itanium, a _different_ 64 bit instruction set than x86.

MacStation Pro, that is my guess/hope. It gets at the sense that it's a Mac, removes the PowerPC connotation _and_ denotation of "Power Mac" (and yes, I understand that Power was used before the PPC was in the mac, ala orignal PowerBooks), and gives us a sense of the workstation quality of the machines.

Can we start a petition?

What about 'TowerMac' or 'Mac Box Pro' :P

I predict iMac Pro following the pattern:
MacBook, MacBook Pro
iMac, iMac Pro

I would love to see it named the Macintosh, such a nostalgic name.

I remember steve saying they wanted to put word "Mac" back in every hardware running OSX. It probably will be called the "Mac" , "Monster Mac" or "Mac Daddy"