If one SuperDrive isn’t enough, put in a second one for US$100 more. This model add SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) support, which gives it access to 15,000 rpm hard drives for maximum performance. Or you can choose an Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or Nvidia’s top-end Quadro FX 5600. The Harpertown CPU supports lower power, cooler running 1.5V memory, which should help keep the insides of the computer cool, and Apple now uses ECC (Error Correction Code) RAM in the Mac Pro.įor graphics, ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT is the default, and you can add one, two, or three more video cards. The new 45nm Harpertown CPU runs at either 2.8, 3.0, or 3.2 GHz and is designed to eventually reach 4.0 GHz it includes 12 MB of level 2 cache per processor, and supports a very fast 1.6 GHz memory bus (vs.

It’s been 17 months since Apple introduced the original Mac Pro, which shipped with two dual-core processors (an 8-core model with two quad-core CPUs was introduced in April 2007), and the new Mac Pro is a big step forward: every configuration uses quad-core Intel Xeon CPUs for even more power.

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