Apple made a press release today at Cupertino announcing a whole new Mac Pro line. This new generation of Mac Pro will bring 50% greater performance than the previous generation. We didn’t want to miss this, so we will be featuring the inside specs of a Mac Pro.
The unit will weight almost 19kg, but have some awesome features. You can choose between two options.
The first one will get you a new quad-core Mac Pro and costs $2,499. It will include:
- one 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon W3530 processor with 8MB of fully-shared L3 cache;
- 3GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 16GB;
- ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
- two Mini DisplayPorts and one DVI (dual-link) port (adapters sold separately);
- 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
- 18x SuperDrive® with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW);
- four PCI Express 2.0 slots;
- five USB 2.0 ports and four FireWire® 800 ports;
- AirPort Extreme® 802.11n;
- Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
- Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad and Magic Mouse.
The second option will offer you an 8-core Mac Pro with a suggested retail price of $3,499. It will include:
- two 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5620 processors with 12MB of fully-shared L3 cache per processor;
- 6GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 32GB;
- ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
- two Mini DisplayPorts and one DVI (dual-link) port (adapters sold separately);
- 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
- 18x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW);
- four PCI Express 2.0 slots;
- five USB 2.0 ports and four FireWire 800 ports;
- AirPort Extreme 802.11n;
- Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
- Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad and Magic Mouse.
Additional updates are still available if you plan to improve this monster:
- 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.
It will cost you almost $5000 to reach a 12-core processor performance and 32Gb RAM, but at least you will know you can ride a machine right from your desk. In a world where you can feed a whole city with $5000, there will be always guys who will spend this amount just for fun.
When you will purchase an Apple Mac Pro you will find in the box:
- Mac Pro
- Power cord
- Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad
- Magic Mouse
- USB keyboard extension cable
- Install/restore DVDs
- Printed and electronic documentation
Accessories include: Magic Trackpad, Apple Battery Charger, wired Apple Mouse, wireless Apple Keyboard, Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter, Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (for 30-inch DVI display), Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter, the AppleCare® Protection Plan; and pre-installed copies of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server; iWork®, Logic Express 9, Final Cut Express 4 and Aperture 3.
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