Apple announced on Wednesday that its all new Mac Pro(R) will be available to order starting on Thursday, Dec. 19. The product is a complete redesign from the inside out and assembled in the United States. The device will be available to order starting tomorrow.
According to The Wall Street Journal's Business Wire the new Mac Pro features the latest Intel Xeon processor, dual workstation-class GPUs, PCIe-based flash storage and ultra fast ECC memory. The product is designed around an innovative unified thermal core and can boast unprecedented performance in an aluminum enclosure that is just 9.9-inches tall and one-eighth the volume of its predecessor from Apple.
The device can come with a 4-core, 6-core, 8-core or 12-core Intel Xeon processor running at Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz and two workstation-class AMD FirePro GPUs that deliver up to eight times the graphics performance of the previous generation Mac Pro. PCIe-based flash storage offers sequential read speeds that are up to ten times faster than most conventional desktop hard drives and ECC DDR3 gives the new Mac Pro up to 60GBps of memory bandwidth. This will allow for seamless editing of full-resolution 4K video while simultaneously rendering effects in the background. The device also sports six Thunderbolt 2 ports, each with up to 20Gbps of bandwidth per device.
The Mac Pro is available with a 3.7 GHz quad-core Intel eon E5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz, dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs with 2GB of VRAM each, 12GB of memory and 256 of PCIe-based flash storage starting at $2,999. The 16GB of memory version will cost and extra thousand, bringing the price up to $3,999.
Those interested in ordering a new Mac Pro can do so on Thursday (Dec. 19) at the Apple Online Store. Will you be among the first to purchase this new desktop computer from Apple? Comment and share your thoughts on the new Mac Pro with us below.
