When are the G5 replacements coming?

A question I am getting asked quite a bit at the moment is "When will
Apple release the G5 replacement workstations?"
Let me go on the record as saying that we'll see them in the last
week of July. Sometime very shortly after Intel officially launches
their Core 2 (AKA Conroe) processors, which is scheduled to be on
July 23rd. They will be hitting the streets at somewhere around
somewhere between 2.5 and 3GHz, and if we get the Extreme version in
the workstations, then we will see a continuation of the liquid-
cooling systems in the current G5s. It will be a 64-bit CPU, so we
will still have the ability to use more than 4GB of RAM in
workstations. I'm not going to speculate if we will get quad CPUs
(via two Core 2 Duo chips) across the entire range, however it will
be an option at the high end. As much as I like the current G5 case,
I'm really hoping that we will see a redesign of the handles on the
top, to make them slightly more handle-like (ie, easier on the hands!)