Apple has put eight-cores in a Mac Pro, starting at $4,000. There are 2 Intel Xeon chips with 4-cores each running at 3.0 GHz. The Mac Pro line still includes the 2 chips with 2-cores each running at either 2.0, 2.66, or 3.0 GHz. In fact, the price on those quad-core models hasn't changed with the 2.66 GHz model starting at $2,500. So that's $1,500 upgrade cost to get the extra 4 cores. No other changes made to the guts of any of the Mac Pro's--neither motherboard, graphics, design, nor optical drives.
It is not clear yet what those extra 4 cores would get me. Apple posted some benchmarks, but Maya 3D was the only application I recognized that had stats for the new machine. No Final Cut benchmarks yet, which seems curious. Does FCP 5.1 not take advantage of those extra cores? Maybe FCP 6, which should be announced at NAB, is need to really take advantage of those extra cores? Hopefully, on 4-16, all will be revealed at Apple's NAB event.
My initial response is that that's too expensive for me, and I'm disappointed that they didn't drop the prices on the other models. On the other hand, this is clearly not a new line of Mac Pro's, which leave the door for completely new machines later this year.
I'd recommend reading HD for Indies response to the new machine and analysis about what it means for FCP.
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