[hengheng]

Let's see what price Apple can negotiate for the 8 and 12 core options. This is where intel usually charges big. Those CPUs may be useful for high density computing in a datacenter, but not so much for a desktop where the user could have gotten two hexa cores for less money.

Personally I'm not excited about a Mac Pro with not much more CPU power than an iMac, other thant it is quite nifty. It's also nice to see workstations a little less dead than I'm used to, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the competitors.

[dylanreeve]

It's hard to say if the new Mac Pro signifies some sort of revival of "workstation" computers because, by many standards, it doesn't stack up as one. Expandability, often one of the cornerstones of a workstation, isn't really a strong feature of the Mac Pro.

I think it's some sort of new class. A high-power compact desktop or something.