Well it’s been over 24 hours since Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco
We saw a preview of Leopard, news on apple stores, new dashboard widgets and the latest developments on Apple’s software apps

But I’m going to skip through all that because the most important announcement was the new Desktop Tower Mac officially announced as the Mac Pro
On the outside it looks pretty similar to the Powermac G5 but on the inside it is clearly far superior and has a pricetag that is more down my street
I’ve been belligerently sticking with my current mac because Apple have not released a computer that I have wanted to buy for over 4 years for various reasons (too expensive, no dual optical drives, i don’t need a laptop, all in one when I like my monitor etc)
But this one looks good

It comes in at under £2000 for the mid range 2.66GHz Dual Core 64 bit Xeon (based on Intel’s Woodcrest processor)
It comes with 1Gb ram as standard, and has the option of having up to 2TB of storage in it’s 4 internal Serial ATA hard drive bays
Five USB (two on the front) and Four Firewire (two FW400, two FW800) ports with one of each on the front
Two Gigabit ethernet connectors, Optical digital AND Analogue audio in AND out (so you can plug a normal microphone or headphone into it if you don’t have optical ones)
Four PCIe slots and capacity for 16Gb of Ram
But best of all it has the space for dual optical DVD±RW superdrives
Graphics cards are good and the processor kicks ass

Bluetooth and Wireless are optional extras but in reality you could add them afterwards and for cheaper by going to 3rd party suppliers
If you want to read more It’s all in the tech specs page

Remember, this is essentially a PC motherboard so any hardware that works on a PC will more than likely work in this

I will definitely be checking this out and gonna find out what I would be able to retrofit from my current setup