In a surprise move today, Apple has announced the release of a new MacPro sporting dual Quad Xeons starting at $2,799, and a new XServe for $2,999. Traditionally announcements about new Apple computers have been made at or following MacWorld's keynote. The pre-MacWorld announcement of these two computer upgrades may indicate that the Jobs Keynote to be given next week in San Francisco is going to be packed with excitement -- these new Quad Xeon models are sporting 2x the processing power of the outgoing models, but apparently this news is not exciting enough for MacWorld.
Given that Jobs has two hours to announce the new products and recap on the performance of the company over the holiday season, this new release will probably still be mentioned in the keynote briefly. In the Keynote last year, Jobs spent 15 minutes on the announcement of the AppleTV, and nearly an hour explaining the iPhone. This leads to speculation that whatever new product Apple is announcing at MacWorld is probably going to require some explanation and a demonstration.
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