According to the last rumors available on the web, Intel should officially launch its Core i7 processors (branded name for the Nehalem) on November 17th.
Intel as well as users have high expectations for this new architecture which should bring a new performance jump thanks to its new bus QPI (Quickpath Interconnexion) as well as its large memory bandwidth, each processor hosting its own controller.
The first Nehalem-based Mac should be the Mac Pro, and Apple could quickly release them following Intel announcements.
According to the first tests performed with Core i7 samples, the gain of performance is around 30% for tasks requiring massive usage of RAM and CPU, as with Cinebench application.
We would not be surprise to see Apple deeply changing the Mac Pro case design to illus
