Apple's new Mac Pro on sale starting at $2,999

Shipping by December 30th.

Apple has just announced that its new Mac Pro computer, will be available for sale starting today, Thursday Dec. 19 beginning at $2,999. The Mac Pro is a professional level desktop computer by Apple. Apple previewed its new Mac Pro at WDDC conference in June, 2013. The Mac Pro offers flexible memory options, vast amounts of hard disk space and the ability to personalize and expand its hardware and software.

The $2,999 configuration of the Mac Pro features a 3.7GHz quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor, not one but two AMD FirePro D500 workstation GPUs with 2GB of dedicated RAM per unit, 12GB of system RAM and a 256 flash storage module. The $3,999 version boosts the processor to a 3.5GHz six-core version, provides 3GB of dedicated RAM to each of those workstation GPUs, 16GB of memory and 256GB of flash storage.

It dramatically reduces its size versus the previous version, and to do that, moves the modularity outside of the case thanks to six Thunderbolt 2 ports, as well as four USB 3.0 connections on the back. It can power up to three 4k displays, too, and also features two Gigabit Ethernet jacks and an HDMI 1.4 UltraHD out.