It’s not just new iMacs that Apple have outed this morning; the company has also announced updates to its Mac Pro range with the much-anticipated quad- and hexacore Intel Xeon processors. While the basic configurations include quad-core CPUs as standard, up to two 2.93GHz 6-core Intel Xeon X5670 processors can be specified, along with up to four 512GB SSDs, an ATI Radeon HD 5870 with 1GB of memory, and up to 32GB of DDR3 memory. Meanwhile there are now two Mini DisplayPort ports as standard.
The new quad-core Mac Pro range kicks off with a $2,499 machine, which includes:
– 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; and
– Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad and Magic Mouse.
Meanwhile the new 8-core Mac Pro starts at $3,499 and includes:
– 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; and
– Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad and Magic Mouse.
The new Mac Pro machines will be available in August, with options including the new Magic Trackpad, twin DVD burners and internal RAID. Hexacore machines will kick off at $4,999.