Apple surprised the world when it previewed the new cylindrical Mac at WWDC 2013. The company has just revealed that the tiny new desktop will start at $2,999 this December.
“It’s our vision of the Pro desktop,” said Apple VP of marketing Phil Schiller. “It has the fastest processor we’ve ever put in a Mac … the fastest memory we’ve ever put in a Mac.”
The new Mac Pro is a beast of a machine. Sporting Intel Xeon E5 processors with between 4 and 12 cores—and topping out at 7 teraflops of computing power—with up to 12 GB of GDDR5 RAM with a 30MB L3 cache, the 2013 MP can hold its own against even the most resource intensive of professional design application.
The graphics are equally impressive. Apple says it has 7 teraflops of compute power and should be able to do things like "seamlessly edit full-resolution 4K video while simultaneously rendering effects in the background." Around back, there's six Thunderbolt 2 ports to drive those 4K displays and connect to next-gen peripherals, as well as four USB 3.0 ports, a 2Gb Ethernet port, HDMI, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. It will ship with OS X Mavericks, the latest version of Apple's operating system.
The new product is as quiet
as a Mac Mini and has one central fan as well as a unique head dispersal system
that ensures the hardware stays cool.
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