New Mac Pro is an absolute beast

Posted: January, 10 2008

Forget dual or quad core, the latest Mac Pro will be shipped with a pair of Intel’s 45 nanometre Quad-Core Xeons, supported by 4 Terabytes of disk space! But it doesn’t stop there -

According to the press release, each processor is backed up by 12 MB of Level 2 cache, and the new high-bandwidth architecture runs dual-independent 1600MHz frontside busses with up to 32GB of 800MHz DDR2 RAM.

Apple claims that this spec equates to a 61 per cent increase in memory throughput.

Graphics on the beast come from ATI’s Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of VRAM. But there is support for up to four graphics cards so the Pro can run eight displays at once.

It will set you back $2700 in the US, and that’s without a monitor.