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CNET News - Apple's speedy Mac Pro arrives in December

2013-10-22
next we like to tell you about Mac Pro matte pro as you know we gave a sneak peek at our developer conference this June and it's not a stretch to say people have been blown away by this incredible new design it's anodized aluminum enclosure with diamond cut chamfered edges so many innovations like the cooling system that is a single fan the previous generation had 8 fans in it or the innovation of the unified thermal core at its center it is a computer that packs an incredible amount of power into something that's one eighth the volume of the previous generation that's simply remarkable it is our vision of the future of the pro desktop and today we'd like to tell you even more about it so inside this new generation Mac Pro is the fastest processor we've ever put in a Mac a new generation intel xeon e5 comes in 4 6 8 or 12 core designs 30 megabyte l3 caches superfast buses a pci express generation 3 bus inside it is the fastest memory we have ever put in a Mac 1866 megahertz ddr3 ECC memory on a broad for channel controller massive bandwidth and up to 64 gigabytes inside probably one of the most remarkable things about this machine the team set a goal to have a breakthrough in graphics it's the first Mac that comes standard with dual workstation graphics AMD firepro d300 d500 or d700 graphics fast buses huge amount of vram up to 12 gigabytes over half a terabyte of bandwidth to it and up to seven teraflops of compute power that's power that can be used both for graphics as well as for compute intensive tasks using the opencl technology that Craig mentioned earlier storage inside is to all flash based simply put you cannot put a hard drive in anymore that's as fast as this flash this pcie-based generation of flash is ten times faster than a hard drive if we put one in 1.2 gigabyte per second reads a gigabyte per second writes up to a terabyte of flash storage it's an incredible storage system if you want to expand it what's Toro expansion begins with Thunderbolt 2 can add expansion chassis storage arrays and so much more its massive throughput it can bond them together with channel bonding kind of up to six to six devices per port and this is the heart of being able to create a true next-generation video work through model with a desktop computer for cavity 4k video 16 times the pixels of 1080p HD video you can have up to two displays plus a third HDMI display for broadcast monitoring there's never been a system that can do what the Mac Pro will be able to do for 4k video expansion it has a really cool feature when you move it there's a motion controller and the aisle illuminates to show your way and there's a lot of great i/o dual audio out for us b-36 Thunderbolt 2 dual Gigabit Ethernet the new generation HDMI up to 4k Bluetooth 4.0 802 11 AC this is packed and built for expansion and we can't wait to get this enhance of more customers so they can show us what they can do with it so the new Mac Pro will cost 2999 and that's for configuration with a 3.7 gigahertz quad-core xeon 12 gigabytes of ultra-fast d ram dual firepro d300 s with two gigs of video memory each and a quarter terabyte of high-speed SSD now if you know what d300s costs and that high-speed flash you're actually super impressed with this pricing it'll be available before the end of the year
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