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While industry analysts agreed today that Apple's choice to outfit the company's desktop line with dual processors was a good move, they remain split on the addition of a SuperDrive equipped eMac to the product grid. Adding yet another product to an already expanding grid could cause confusion for consumers one analyst warned. "This is a very smart move," Tim Bajarin, industry analyst and president of Creative Strategies, told

MacCentral. "When you deal with the kind of work that Apple's pro users do -- in the area of graphics, imaging and video -- you really want to have the most powerful processors as possible. This gives the Mac community something that's more than capable of dealing with Intel machines." The architecture of the Power Mac is based on Apple's Xserve rackmount server with support for up to 2GB of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory at up to 333MHz. In addition each system includes 1MB of DDR SRAM backside level 3 cache per processor. The Power Mac system bus, which currently sits at up to 167MHz supporting over 1.3GBps data throughput, doesn't look as impressive as some PC machines currently available. Apple says there's more to it than the numbers; architecture plays a big role in overall performance.

eMac gets a SuperDrive

"What's different in our architecture from the PC architecture -- which has a higher marketing spec number for the bus -- is that they have every single thing on the system competing for that bus," said Greg Joswiak, senior director of hardware product marketing at Apple. "It has to move quickly because it has a lot of traffic and congestion on the bus. We have each part of the system with its own dedicated bus to the system controller. That means these things don't have a latency or congestion as they wait for other data to migrate through the bus." Apple became the largest Unix operating system vendor with the initial release of Mac OS X. Since then the company has been wooing the Unix developer community to develop products for the platform and become involved with Macintosh users. This year's Worldwide Developer Conference in Cupertino saw the largest contingent of Unix developers to date. Apple thinks hardware offerings of this caliber will go further to attracting new Unix users.While industry analysts agreed today that Apple's choice to outfit the company's desktop line with dual processors was a good move, they remain split on the addition of a SuperDrive equipped eMac to the product grid. Adding yet another product to an already expanding grid could cause confusion for consumers one analyst warned.

This is a very smart move

"This is a very smart move," Tim Bajarin, industry analyst and president of Creative Strategies, told MacCentral. "When you deal with the kind of work that Apple's pro users do -- in the area of graphics, imaging and video -- you really want to have the most powerful processors as possible. This gives the Mac community something that's more than capable of dealing with Intel machines." The architecture of the Power Mac is based on Apple's Xserve rackmount server with support for up to 2GB of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory at up to 333MHz. In addition each system includes 1MB of DDR SRAM backside level 3 cache per processor. Hi Mom

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