By AppleInsider Staff
Published: 06:00 PM EST (03:00 PM PST)
A slip-up on Apple's UK online store has revealed that a Mac Pro workstation with 8 cores of processing power is inching closer to a release.
"Now quad-core or 8-core processing power," read a caption next to the company's existing Mac Pro offering. "Configure yours today."
The blooper corroborates an exclusive
AppleInsider report from last October which
first laid out the Mac maker's plans for an 8-core Mac Pro.
Although development of the system was reported to have wrapped up some time ago, Apple has thus far decided to defer the release until closer to the launch of Adobe's Creative Suite 3.0 (CS3) software bundle.
Sales of the current Mac Pro have been slow from the get-go, as Apple's creative professional user base has largely deferred purchasing the new Intel systems while they await native software support in CS3.
The new Mac Pro, people familiar with the systems have said, will achieve 8-core status through the adoption of
two Intel quad-core Xeon 5300 series "Clovertown" chips.
On Monday, Apple's UK store offered evidence of an impending 8-core Mac Pro.
