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then surely there interchangable. atleast they are with PCs?
Xeons are just the workstation version of core 2 with a different name.
Only in the same way that Celerons are the same as Pentium 4!
Also Core2 and their quad core counter parts are not normally designed to work in PAIRS so they are not interchangable. Even if you put one of them into a Mac pro the EFI would probably fail to recognise it (as it is designed for Xeons) unless you were lucky. I do know of one modder that has done it but more for amusement than anything else because the Xeons will always out perform their desktop equivalents. I doubt that Intel will release any EIGHT core processors until after NEHALEM is out but the six core is already mapped.