Apple announces Mac Pro – shipping today – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
“The fastest, most configurable Mac ever” indeed. Today at WWDC 2006 (check out our coverage and the chatcast) Apple introduced the Mac Pro, and it might as well come with a pair of hot pads with all-new features like this:
- 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 drive1
- 16x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
And the fun doesn’t stop there. You can stuff up to 16GB of RAM inthese beasts now, along with 2TB of storage. With over 1,000,000available BTO configurations, we wouldn’t be surprised if customershave a hard time simply deciding on which Mac Pro they want to throw down their credit cards for.
Also notable: gone are the two or three configuration options from the PowerMacMac Pro’s page in the store. It simply offers the base configuration,which now starts at $2499, and beckons you to click ‘configure’. Justtry not getting lost in options on your way to the checkout.
Brand new Mac Pro ruthlessly gutted! – Engadget
And now, time for some pr0n. The folks over at PowerMax just got an early shipment of one of those fancy new Mac Prosfrom Apple, so they naturally ripped open the box and gutted thecomputer. Looks like fun, but don’t take our word for it, hit the readlink to head on over and peep those hugemongous heatsinks for yourself.
Mac Pro taken apart!
By Powermax
08/08/2006 10:40 PST
Here’s the box…
Not much has changed here, obviously…
The accessories…
Looks like we are back to the standard power plug, which should be good news for a lot of users.
Here’s the back…
Nice dual gigabit ethernet ports, and the business end of a smokin’ graphics card.
The new front ports
Two drive bays…
Two drive bays open…
The optical drive…
It’s a Sony.
The fan unit…
The fan unit again
Fans removed!
The processor lair!
The processor lair, closer in
The truly gigantic heat sink
Sinks in place
The processor
Yet another shot of the processor location
For some scale…
The drive sleds…
The stock hard disk…
Seagate 7200rpm 250GB
Tha mo-bo
The PCI slots…
Independent power cords…
The RAM riser card being removed
RAM must be installed in pairs on the new riser cards. Each Mac Procomes with two riser cards. Note the oversized heat sinks for the newRAM. Each RAM stick has a small processor which generates aconsiderable amount of heat.
Sliding in the RAM riser…
The RAM riser card ready to go back into its slot, illustrating how it slides in on rails.
The RAM riser cards…
There is an enormous amount of room for RAM in this system, up to 16GB if desired.
Riser cards in the case…
The RAM label
The RAM heat sinks
The sinks are almost the size of some processor heat sinks.
The optical drive sleds
The hard drive lock light glows orange
All 4 hard drive trays lock into place when the back latch isclosed, indicated by the orange indicator. All 4 trays are included.Also, note the power supply is now found at the top of the unit, seenin the upper right of the photo.
Unlocking the hard drives…
Same picture as above, but hard drives are unlocked.
The beauty within
Internal PCI-E slots shown with the high-end NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, and two dual-link DVI ports. Notes from thefield indicate that the new machine’s video cards are non-SLIcompliant.
The side case open
