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Anybody have any ideas on about how much time there is usually between a product announcement from Apple (say, if they were to announce quad core processor machines) and when they start shipping?

With Apple, it depends a bit on how innovative the product is. In this particular case, where they're just plugging new chips that clearly already exist, into a machine that also clearly already exists, I'd expect them to already be shipping by the time the press embargo expires.

Peter