Apple announces new Mac Pros, up to 12 cores

The new Mac Pros sport Intel’s Xeon (“Nehalem”) processors with a variety of configurations. The extreme end is, obviously, the most gaudy one: Apple is offering users the options to slap two CPUs, meaning up to 12 cores of processing power, into the towers for a starting entry price of $4,999. Twelve! These machines use Intel’s “Westmere” processor series, which is the codename for the 32-nm processor chips.