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Editors' note:The Mac Pro is a high-end professional product too far-reaching to fully test in an initial day or two. We will continue to explore the system's functionality for video editing, graphics, and other tasks, and update this review regularly.

Apple's new Mac Pro is a stunningly fresh take on the desktop computer. But it's probably not for you.

The tabletop-size cylinder design has been described as resembling everything from a small beer keg to a jet engine to a kitchen composter, each clad in gleaming Darth Vader black. More importantly, it breaks the decades-long tradition of putting desktop computer components in a rectangular box, whether a massive full tower of the kind that dominated offices and dens for many years, or a small cube such as Apple's own Mac Mini.