The previous Mac Pro was also available with only one CPU. It dropped the base price to $1999 from $2499. To get it, you had to do a BTO order, since Apple only offered one standard config.

To go 8 core now, there is a bit of a price jump. Last time around $2499 was 8, now it's just 4, and $3200 is the entry level 8 core price.


It looks like Apple is continuing to use mobile or Xeon processors, and skipping the desktop processors. The Core i7 mobile CPUs aren't due out until later this year, so that left Apple the choice of trying to migrate the iMacs over to desktop CPUs or waiting. This is more of a small incremental bump for now for the Mini and iMac over the previous models, mostly to bring in the same NVidia chipset transition the mobile computers just recently completed.