The Mac Pro, Apple’s recently refreshed dream machine with up to twelve processing cores, can now be ordered fromApple. The online Apple store estimates up to ten days delivery time for the pricey desktop and users can configure the system with high-end graphics from ATI.Announced on July 27, the new Mac Pro is available in quad-core, eight-core, and twelve-core flavors, beginning at $2,499, $3,499, and $4,999, respectively. The quad-core model sports a single 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Xeon W3530 processor, 3GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory (expandable up to 16GB), and a 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive (7200 rpm).
The 8-core model features two 2.4GHz Xeon E5620 quad-core processors and 6GB of RAM while its twelve-core counterpart boasts two 2.66GHz six-core CPUs. Early CPU benchmarksreleased last November indicated that a Mac Pro fitted with two six-core processors brings a 50 percent speed boost over the previous-generation flagship model. LINK
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