Next in turn: the Powermac

With the Xserve, which is kind of an outsider in Apple's range of products, the Powermac G5 is now a survivor amongst its Core Duo peers. However its heir should come out quite soon.
Intel Xeon Woodcrest CPU will come out next month. And one month later, Core 2 Duo will take the place of Pentium IV.
Here at Hardmac, we'd bet that Apple is gonna go for Woodcrest. Contrarily to the Core 2 Duo, indeed, this dual core CPU can be made to work with one of its siblings on the same board, and here you get four cores! This is Apple's only solution, or its new machines will be overshadowed by the mythic Quad (and bye bye the "4 times faster, amaaazing!"...).
Based on the Core technology, this Xeon has all the markings of a very good product. It is said to run 50% faster than its predecessor with a lower power consumption. Its frequency will surf on the 3GHz wave and its bus speed will skyrocket to 1.33 GHz.
A quicker than expected end of the transition is to be expected with, as the fleet commander, a 3GHz Core Quad Xeon Powermac with dual channel 667 or 800 DDR2 RAM and less noise for the same price, because 80W is enough for a 3GHz Xeon dual, vs 100W for a 2.5GHz G5 Dual.
While we're at it, if Apple listens to us (if only they were also hearing!), some customers would love to have... more than two hard drive bays and, oh... two optical drive bays and PCI-X alongside PCI-Express.
Oh yeah...