New Apple Mac Pro line-up to Hit Stores August

Apple just revealed the new Mac Pro line-up which Apple claimed as the most powerful and configurable Mac they’ve ever made. The new line-up featured the latest quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors, the new ATI graphics and support for up to four 512GB SSD. With all these new features, Apples aims to meet the requirements of  most demanding consumers and professionals. Every Mac also comes with Mac OS® X Snow Leopard and iLife for managing photos, making movies and creating and learning to play music.

Under its hood, the new Mac Pro has the next-gen quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors clocking at 3.33GHz.  A single die design is implemented by these multi-core processors which enables each core to share up to 12MB L3 cache for optimal performance and efficiency. It also has an integrated memory controller for faster bandwidth and minimal latency. The Turbo boost feature is the key here- it dynamically boost the processor speed up to 3.6 GHz to create up to 24 virtual cores. Graphics is handled by the ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics processor with 1GB memory and for more demanding users, Apple gives a choice for ATI Radeon HD 5870 as well. The  new Mac Pro supports up to four 512GB SSD drives and also two Mini DisplayPorts and one dual-link DVI port.

The new Mac Pro comes with Magic Mouse and customers can also order the new Magic Trackpad. The Magic Trackpad has a customizable option for users to use it as either single or two button commands and  it has tap-to-click feature apart from the standard physical click. It is available for Rs. 3,070.

Apart from these, there is one unexpected new product launched from Apple, the  new Apple Battery Charger to power up the Magic Trackpad, Magic Mouse and Wireless Keyboard. This Apple Battery Charger is available as an option for Rs 1,140 (Inc VAT) and comes with six long shelf life rechargeable batteries.  The new Mac Pro will be available in August through Apple Authorized Resellers.

The new quad-core Mac Pro, with a suggested retail price of Rs 128,490 (Inc VAT), 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.

 

The new 8-core Mac Pro, with a suggested retail price of Rs 179,910 (Inc VAT), 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.

 

Configure-to-order options include:

• one 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon W3565 processor for the quad-core Mac Pro;

• one 3.33 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon W3680 processor for the quad-core Mac Pro;

• two 2.66 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon X5650 processors (12-cores) for the 8-core Mac Pro;

• two 2.93 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon X5670 processors (12-cores) for the 8-core Mac Pro;

• two ATI Radeon HD 5770 cards with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;

• one ATI Radeon HD 5870 card with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;

• up to 16GB of DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory for the quad-core Mac Pro;

• up to 32GB of DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory for the 8-core Mac Pro;

• up to four 512GB solid state drives (SSD); or

• up to four 1TB or 2TB Serial ATA hard drives running at 7200 rpm;

• Mac Pro RAID card;

• dual-channel or quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel card; and

• up to two 18x SuperDrives with double-layer support.

 

Accessories include: Magic Trackpad, Apple Battery Charger, wired Apple Mouse, wireless Apple Keyboard, Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter, Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (for 30-inch DVI display), Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter, the AppleCare® Protection Plan; and pre-installed copies of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server; iWork®, Logic Express 9, Final Cut Express 4 and Aperture 3. Complete options and accessories are available at http://www.apple.com/in/macpro/