Apple today launched its latest meanest and loudest product, the new Mac Pro. Equipped with a staggering eight processor cores, and a brand spankin’ new system architecture - capable of outperforming its predecessor by at least two times, the New Mac Pro employs the latest Intel technology and uses new 45 nanometer Quad-Core Xeon processors running a whopping 3.2GHz. The Mac Pro also comes with a ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card with 256MB of video memory and can support the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT with 512MB of video memory, or NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 with 1.5GB of video memory. Prices start at $2,799.

According to Apple, this Mac sets a new benchmark for the rest of its product line. “The new Mac Pro is the fastest Mac we’ve ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With 3.2 GHz 8-core Xeon processing, a 1600 MHz front side bus and 800 MHz memory, the new Mac Pro uses the fastest Intel Xeon architecture on the market.”

Designed to be the most expandable Mac ever, the Mac Pro features four hard drive bays with direct attach, cable-free installation of four 1TB Serial ATA hard drives, totaling 4TB of internal storage and support for two SuperDrives. With optional 15000 rpm SAS drives that can deliver up to 250MB/s of RAID 5 disk I/O performance, the Mac Pro is without doubt an absolutely ideal solution for film editors.

Leopard - which has been dubbed by countless industry critics as something superior to Windows Vista, is also included and is filled with 300 additional features such as Stacks, a redesigned finder, Quick Look, Spaces and Time Machine.

The launch comes shortly after Apply recently announced its share price had tipped $200, consequently making it the third most valuable technology based company after Microsoft and Google. With the success of the iPhone, iPod and now the Mac - which seems to be infiltrating Microsoft’s massive market share, Apple seems to be only going up.

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