Apple's WWDC 2006 keynote, hosted by Steve Jobs has just ended. As many guessed, he unveiled the Intel Power Mac successor -- the Mac Pro -- and, of course, debuted Leopard, the next version of Apple's OS X Operating System.

Leopard

Jobs didn't want to reveal all of Leopard's "top-secret" features, so Redmond (Microsoft) doesn't "start their photocopiers too soon". He did, however, outline several features of Leopard:

• Backup software, called Time Machine. Automatically backs up all versions of a file to your hard drive or server. Built into OS X's finder, but is also used by iPhoto and can be implemented into third-party apps. Viewing old versions of files is done in a stylish, 3D fashion with cascading windows.
• 64-bit application support
• Boot Camp is improved and will ship with Leopard
• Photo Booth is back with a new version for Leopard
• Spaces, Apple's version of Virtual Desktop, allows you to group together applications and windows in their own dedicated spaces.
• Spotlight now has boolean searches, an application launcher, and a spot for recent items. It can also search files over a network. In the demo, a spotlight icon was in the dock
• Core Animation technology will allow developers to easily create animation in their apps
• Mail now includes To-Do lists, stationary templates (sent in valid HTML so it looks the same across all mail clients), and Notes
• iChat will be getting a huge upgrade: animated buddy icons, tabbed browsing, Photo Booth effects in video chat, custom backgrounds, invisible mode, multiple logins, and video recording
• New VoiceOver version -- more human-like voices, Braille, closed-captioning
• Dashcode, a sort of WYSIWYG editor for widgets

The Mac Pro

The successor to the PowerMac looks the same on the outside (with the exception of a second optical drive), but the Mac Pro is powered by two Dual Core Intel Xeon 5100 processors at 2GHz, 2.66GHz, or 3GHz. The specs of the base model ($2400) are below, but the system can be built-to-order with tons of options: up to 16GB of RAM, 2TB of storage, and upgraded video cards.