Apple Mac Pro gets 12 cores

Life

28 July 2010

Apple has unveiled a new line-up of Mac Pros with 12 cores as part of a refresh of its computer range.

The new Mac Pro uses quad-core and six-core Intel Xeon processors, configurable to a 12-core system, as well as ATI graphics, and up to four 512Gb solid-state drives. Apple said the Xeon processors offer speeds up to 3.33GHz, which with Turbo Boost can hit 3.6GHz.

Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, claimed the new line-up outperforms the previous systems by up to 50%, and offers “over a billion possible configurations.”

In addition, each Mac Pro comes with Apple’s Magic Mouse and the option to buy the new Magic TrackPad for €69. The glass, wireless multitouch device lets users bring touch to their desktop PCs, working in the same way as the trackpad in Apple’s MacBook Pros.

Pricing for the quad-core Mac Pro starts at €2,449, while the new 8-core system will start from €3,449 in the US (UK prices are yet to be confirmed). The new line-up ships from August. The cost to upgrade to a 12-core or multiple SSD system wasn’t revealed for Ireland, but in the US a 12-core system will start from $4,999.

Apple also updated its iMac lineup, adding Intel’s Core i3, i5 and i7 processors as well as discrete graphics cards from ATI.

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