Debut Two Mac Pros from Apple
Mar 5, 2009 Apple
That’s it. The final equipment that you can send directly to the stream, the new Mac Pro is just perfect. Starting with a redesigned interior and redeployed in order to access the most important components more quickly, especially hard drives and RAM.
The new Mac Pro features the ability to use an Intel Xeon Quad-Core “Nehalem” or setting up a computer with two 8-core Intel Xeon Quad-Core. In RAM cannot complain with 1066MHz DDR3 modules come in 1GB modules installed 3 in both models, but is capable of supporting up to 32GB using DIMMs.
On the graph you can choose two of the PCI-E cards that currently compete with each other, an ATI Radeon HD 4870 GDDR5 512MB or a NVIDIA 512MB GeForce GT 120. Both include port mini DisplayPort, dual DVI output. The curiosity is that Apple states that these charts repeatedly in the Mac Pro can support up to 8 monitors 30 inches.
Includes a 640GB SATA hard drive at 7200rpm (16MB cache), you can optionally choose a 1TB SATA disk of the same speed but with 32MB cache. It is supports a SuperDrive with double-layer DVD.
Other specs are a dual port Gigabit Ethernet, 7 USB ports, 4 additional FireWire 800 ports, audio input and output optical and analog. Something great is the ability to make any changes in hardware RAM, hard drives or optical drives without the need to shut down the Mac Pro
Specification for the Quad-Core:
- One 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processor
- 3GB of RAM
- 640GB hard drive
- 18x DVD burner
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 GPU with 512MB of RAM
- Starts at $2499
Specification for the 8-Core:
- Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processors
- 6GB of RAM
- 640GB hard drive
- 18x DVD burner
- NVIDIA GeForce 120 with 512MB of RAM
- Starts at $3299
The prices seem it, the Quad-Core costs € 2199 (about $2499) and € 2899 (about $3299) for 8 cores.
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Apple debuts two new Mac Pros
March 31st, 2009 at 3:42 pm
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