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How Much Does a Fully-Equipped Mac Pro Cost?

Technabob — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:06:22 +0000

The guys over at Pikimal set out to answer just that question, and they configured a Mac Pro with every option currently available. Here’s what they came up with…

Two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
32GB (8x4GB)
2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
4x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB
Two 18x SuperDrives
Apple Cinema HD Display (30″ flat panel)
Apple Cinema HD Display (30″ flat panel)
Apple Magic Mouse
Apple Wireless Keyboard (English) and User’s Guide
AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi Card with 802.11n
iWork preinstalled
Aperture preinstalled
Final Cut Express preinstalled
Logic Express preinstalled
FileMaker Pro 11 preinstalled
Microsoft Office Mac 2008 – Business Edition
MAC OS X Server (Unlimited-Client)
Xsan 2.2
Apple Mini DisplayPort – DVI Adapter
Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter
Apple Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter
MobileMe
1-year One to One membership
AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac Pro – Auto-enroll

And the grand total…. Drumroll please….

$19,234.90 (USD). And that’s not even the brand spanking new 12-core version. So in other words, you can have a nicely-equipped new car, or a Mac Pro. Which one will you choose? Decisions, decisions.

[via Pikimal]

Mac Pro With Core I7 Processor Due on March 16? [Rumor]

Lambert Varias — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:21:54 +0000

ZD Net‘s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes not only has a fancy upper-crusty name, he has some sweet sources as well, sources who have whispered in his ear that next week, March 16th, Apple is going to unveil a Mac Pro configuration that carries Intel’s six core, 3.33 GHz Core i7-980x. Sadly, these sources of possible nonexistent goodness didn’t say anything about a similar and long overdue update to the MacBook Pro line.

My sources sent me that picture, and they swore to me that that the Core i7 processor literally looks like its logo and is really that big. Something tells me I shouldn’t trust my sources anymore.

[via ZDNet via Gear Live]

Wwdc 2006 Keynote Coverage

Technabob — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:58:04 +0000

Here’s the latest news from Steve Jobs’ keynote address at Apple’s 2006 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) today…

9:50am (Pacific): The Apple Store is temporarily down for maintenance, so clearly something new will be released today…

10:03am: Steve Jobs has taken the stage.

10:05am: 50% of new Mac purchasers are new Mac adopters, and over 17 million visited Apple stores in last quarter. Shipped 1.33 million Macs this quarter. Over 3/4 of the shipped Macs were Intel-based.

10:10am: New PowerMac replacement the Mac Pro. These will contain Core 2 Duo “Woodcrest” processors. Each with 2 dual-core Xeon processors performing at up at up to 3GHz and 4MB L2 cache. Estimated to run 1.6 to 2.1x faster than a G5 quad machine. Real world increase should be around 2x faster than prior machines. Since the machines require less power, there is less cooling required, and more room for hard drives (up to 4 per box). These machines will feature the same case design as prior PowerMacs, but the interior is totally redesigned. Drives will “snap” into place, room for larger double width graphics cards. 4 PCI Express slots and up to 2TB of storage.

10:15am: $2499 Price for the Mac Pro with:

Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon “Woodcrest” processors
4MB shared L2 cache per processor
1.33GHz dual independent frontside buses
1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive
16x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD