Greg Joswiak, Apple vice president of hardware product marketing, says, “Our customers told us loud and clear that they love dual processors, so now two of the three Power Mac G5 models feature dual processors.”

All Power Mac systems ship with Mac OS X version 10.3 “Panther” to deliver the most substantial benefits of 64-bit computing – breaking through the 4GB physical memory barrier. Apple says the combination of the Power Mac G5 and Panther provide creative professionals power never before realised on a desktop system.

The new Power Mac G5, offering dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC processors, each with an independent 900 MHz frontside bus, provides for more than 14 GBps of bandwidth. In addition to providing fast throughput to main memory, this high performance frontside bus architecture enables each PowerPC G5 processor to discover and access data in the other processor’s caches-further increasing bandwidth on dual processor systems.

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