apple gives us a late christmas

New Mac Pro's are out today! What a surprise and right before Macworld (happening on 15th onwards). Lets see what's under the hood:

two 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors with dual-independent 1600 MHz front side buses; (this alone seals the deal)

2GB of 800 MHz DDR2 ECC fully-buffered DIMM memory, expandable up to 32GB;

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory;

320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;

16x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW);

Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (finally!); and ships with Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse

All of this for about RM9,000++ is not bad. The sweetest thing about this is that you'll be getting 8 cores for the such a price, compared to my friend who spent more than RM16,000 to buy the previous slower 8core, built to order Mac Pro.

So if you've been waiting for this update, congrats, the wait is over and the wait for Apple Malaysia to bring it here begins.

More information on Apple's Mac Pro page
Read about first impressions from buyers in the US here (give it a few days)