Apple announces new Mac Pros are available, one week before Macworld. Might mean there is something special to be announced, as this speed bump is worth its own stage. Hope everyone is on board.
The standard 8-core Mac Pro, with a suggested retail price of $2,799 (US), includes:
- two 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors with dual-independent 1600 MHz front side buses;
- 2GB of 800 MHz DDR2 ECC fully-buffered DIMM memory, expandable up to 32GB;
- ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory;
- 320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
- 16x SuperDrive™ with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW);
- two PCI Express 2.0 slots and two PCI Express slots;
- Bluetooth 2.0+EDR; and
- ships with Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse.
In addition to the standard configuration, the Mac Pro offers numerous build-to-order options including: one 2.8 GHz, two 3.0 GHz, or two 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors; up to 32GB of 800 MHz DDR2 fully-buffered ECC memory; up to four 1TB Serial ATA hard drives running at 7200 rpm or up to four 300GB SAS drives running at 15000 rpm; Mac Pro RAID card; up to two 16x SuperDrives with double-layer support; NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 graphics cards; AirPort Extreme 802.11n; Apple USB Modem; Apple wireless Aluminum Keyboard.
A 2.3 GHz 8-core Mac Pro with four 500 GB hard drives (2TB), NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (Two dual-link DVI), wireless mouse and keyboard. $5,4 comes to $5,499.00, not counting the additional memory.
Apple prices
4GB (4 x 1GB) [Add $500] OWC $230
8GB (4 x 2GB) [Add $1500] OWC $529
16GB (8 x 2GB) [Add $3500] OWC $1,030
16GB (4 x 4GB) [Add $4300] OWC $1,350 (qualified but not certified)
32GB (8 x 4GB) [Add $9100] OWC $2,650 (qualified but not certified)
And these are not necessarily the best prices, but a darn good reason not to buy from Apple. Other World Computing
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