Apple Introduces Eight-Core Mac Pros: "For those who have been waiting for new Mac desktops to land, Apple has one message: eight is great. Today the company added an 8-core Intel Xeon processor configuration to the Mac Pro. That octet comes in the form of two 'Clovertown' 3.0 GHz quad-core Xeon 5300 series processors, available as a custom option when assembling a system at the online Apple Store for $1,500 more than the default configuration of a pair of dual-core Xeons. Each processor features 8 MB of L2 cache (16 MB total), 128-b..."