Apple has done what so many suspected in the last few weeks. They’ve introduced the new Mac Pro, the final step in the PPC > Intel migration, and successor to the venerable PowerMac G5 line of computers.

*Based on Intel 64-bit Xeon processors (Woodcrest line)
*Same beautiful exterior case design as the G5
*Core 2 microarchitecture, runs at up to 3 GHz, features 4 MB shared L2 cache
*127-bit vector engine / faster than Velocity Engine
*Base model Mac Pro’s will ship with dual Xeons
*Fast. Quad Xeon spanks the Quad G5 in benchmarks, up to 2x faster
*Dual optical drive bays
*New drive bay design offers more internal hard drive options (4?)
*Up to 16GB memory.
*Ships today

Example config:
*Dual 2.66 dual core Xeons
*1 GB, 667 MHz FB-DIMM
*250GB HD
*Nvidia 256MB Geforce 7300GT
*16x Superdrive
*$2499