Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Apple Mac Pro added hexa-core CPUs, DirectX 11, more flashy storage

Fruity professionals craving more power from their work rig will soon be able to buy the new Mac Pro which can be equipped with one or two quad-core or hexa-core processors, up to two DirectX 11 graphics card and 8TB worth of storage space (4TB via four SSDs).

"The new Mac Pro is the most powerful and configurable Mac we've ever made." said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "With up to 12 cores, the new Mac Pro outperforms our previous top-of-the-line system by up to 50 percent, and with over a billion possible configurations, our customers can create exactly the system they want."

Apple's updated workstation will be available in the following two base configurations which can be customized with even better (more expensive) hardware.

$2,499

- 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 and Magic Mouse

$3,499

- 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 and Magic Mouse

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