I think I’m more excited about the Mac Pro than I was about the iPad Air. Both the base and high end models show US shipping dates of December 30th.

On the low end of the scale, the bare-bones base model (3.7GHz quad-core with 10MB of L3 cache, 12GB (3x4GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC, 256 GB flash, Dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs with 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM each) is $2,999.

At the tippy top, a fully loaded high-end model (with 2.7GHz 12-core/30MB of L3 cache, 64GB (4x16GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC, 1 TB flash, Dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM each) will set you back $9,599.

There’s also an option to add a Sharp 32″ 4K LED Monitor for $3,595.