Geekanoids: New Mac Pros from Apple

New Mac Pros from Apple
Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Wow, those guys (and gals) at Apple HQ have been busy today, with new Mac Pros launched, offering very very fast speeds indeed. I won't rattle on about my thoughts, but check out the detals below (don't miss the 18x superdrive... interesting).

The new quad-core Mac Pro, with a suggested retail price of £1,899, includes:

one 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3500 series processor with 8MB of L3 cache;
3GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 8GB;
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 graphics with 512MB of GDDR3 memory;
640GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
18x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW);
Mini DisplayPort and DVI (dual-link) for video output (adapters sold separately);
four PCI Express 2.0 slots;
five USB 2.0 ports and four FireWire® 800 ports;
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR; and
ships with Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad and Mighty Mouse.

The new 8-core Mac Pro, with a suggested retail price of £2,499 (US), includes:

two 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors with 8MB of shared L3 cache;
6GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 32GB;
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 graphics with 512MB of GDDR3 memory;
640GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
18x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW);
Mini DisplayPort and DVI (dual-link) for video output (adapters sold separately);
four PCI Express 2.0 slots;
five USB 2.0 ports and four FireWire 800 ports;
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR; and
ships with Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad and Mighty Mouse

Labels: Apple News

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