Apple announces Mac Pro and Xserve with Quad Intel Xeon chips

At the keynote of its annual World Wide Developers Conference WWDC Apple introduced the Mac Pro and the new Xserve with Quad Intel Xeon chips up to 3 GHz.

The Mac Pro has four hard drive bays, two optical drive bays and is available as built to order with 2GHz CPUs and 160GB hard drive for 2124$. 2.6GHz and 3GHz CPUs are available, too.

The new Xserve can use either S-ATA or SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives and has a miniDVI port on the motherboard for attching a monitor without using one of its two eight-lane PCI Express slots. One slot can be configured as a PCI-X slot for compatibility with older expansion cards.