What's the 411 on the new machine?

i have a first generation mac pro (2006) and it is getting time for an upgrade partly due to my need to upgrade OS to match my laptop. i have a couple of boot camp installations to run windows xp and windows 7 so i am half thinking of keeping my old machine and buying a new one just for mac OS and a parallels installation with windows 7.
i have a pretty solid backup routine here where i have two operating drives in the mac pro (one for the OS is 1 TB and one for the DATA is 2 TB) and the two other drives in the mac pro backup these two drives (so these are internal backups). then i basically have an external clone of the data and a time machine backup of the data. then i also keep an "off site" backup of both of these drives in my truck.
this took quite awhile to figure out and set up so i am a little leery of figuring this out again but i am also somewhat leery of having to drop +/- $1000 on externals to get the new desktop backed up with proper external drives.
can anyone help me figure out if this new machine has a good chance of being as good as my old desktop? whether i should wait until the second generation comes out. what features i should look for and or watch out for? what kind of externals i will need to get up and running?
i don't really want to spend the time and cash on this but if it buys me another 5 - 6 years of low hassle computing on the newer OS's it will be worth it.
THANKS

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