Apple is introducing a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display with 2560x1440 resolution and 60% more screen real estate than the 24-inch LED Cinema Display, the firm says.

It features a 16:9 edge-to-edge glass display on an aluminium stand with an adjustable hinge that makes tilting the display almost effortless. It includes a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, an integrated MagSafe charger to keep Mac notebooks charged, built-in Mini DisplayPort connectivity for video and audio input and a powered three-port USB 2.0 hub.

The new LED Cinema Display now includes a new ambient light sensor which automatically adjusts the display brightness based on external lighting conditions. It will be available in September at a suggested, US, retail price of $999.

Apple has also unveiled a new Mac Pro line of computers, which now offers the possibility of using up to 12 processing cores.

"The new Mac Pro is the most powerful and configurable Mac we've ever made," says Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, in a press statement. "With up to 12 cores, the new Mac Pro outperforms our previous top-of-the-line system by up to 50%."

The new Mac Pro uses "next generation" quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors running at speeds up to 3.33 GHz. "These multi-core processors use a single die design so each core can share up to 12MB L3 cache to improve efficiency while increasing processing speed," says Apple. "These systems feature an integrated memory controller for faster memory bandwidth and reduced memory latency; Turbo Boost to dynamically boost processor speeds up to 3.6 GHz; and Hyper-Threading to create up to 24 virtual cores."

The Mac Pro also comes with the ATI Radeon HD 5770 or ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics processors with 1GB of memory. "Mac Pro customers have the option to order a 512GB SSD. With the ability to install up to four SSD drives in the system's internal drive bays, the new Mac Pro can provide ultra high-speed disk bandwidth and random disk performance, two times faster than the average performance of a standard disk drive," claims the Cupertino-based firm.

The new Mac Pro is available now, retailing in the following configurations:

The quad-core Mac Pro, with a suggested retail price of £1999.
The 8-core Mac Pro, with a suggested retail price of £2799.

Configure-to-order options include:
- one 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon W3565 processor for the quad-core Mac Pro;
- one 3.33 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon W3680 processor for the quad-core Mac Pro;
- two 2.66 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon X5650 processors (12-cores) for the 8-core Mac Pro;
- two 2.93 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon X5670 processors (12-cores) for the 8-core Mac Pro;
- two ATI Radeon HD 5770 cards with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
- one ATI Radeon HD 5870 card with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
- up to 16GB of DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory for the quad-core Mac Pro;
- up to 32GB of DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory for the 8-core Mac Pro;
- up to four 512GB solid state drives (SSD); or
- up to four 1TB or 2TB Serial ATA hard drives running at 7200 rpm;
- Mac Pro RAID card;
- dual-channel or quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel card; and
- up to two 18x SuperDrives with double-layer support.

For more information, visit www.apple.com/uk.