Apple Ships New Mac Pro

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Apple's New Mac Pro

Apple has announced to introduce the new Mac Pro with eight processor cores and a new system architecture delivering up to twice the performance of its predecessor. The new Mac Pro incorporates Intel’s new 45 nanometer Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2 GHz, powerful new graphics and up to 4TB of internal storage. Hence it is very useful for people like 3D digital content creators and scientists.

“The new Mac Pro is the fastest Mac we’ve ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With 3.2 GHz 8-core Xeon processing, a 1600 MHz front side bus and 800 MHz memory, the new Mac Pro uses the fastest Intel Xeon architecture on the market.”

Key features of the standard 8-core Mac Pro are:

  • Two 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors with dual-independent 1600 MHz front side buses
  • 2GB of 800 MHz DDR2 ECC fully-buffered DIMM memory, expandable up to 32GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory
  • 320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm
  • 16x SuperDriveâ„¢ with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
  • Two PCI Express 2.0 slots and two PCI Express slots
  • Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

    • Moreover the new Mc Pro also features five USB 2.0, two FireWire 400, two FireWire 800, optical and analog audio in and out, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and a headphone jack. It is equipped with Apple’s latest operating system, Leopard.

    The new Mac Pro will ship with ultra-thin aluminum Apple Keyboard.

    The price of the standard new Mac Pro is $2,799 (approx Rs. 1,09,960) and it is now available in all American Apple stores.