Most notably the lack of a Blu-ray or HD-DVD recording option. There are also other aspects of the Mac Pro we find conspicuous in their absence. A slightly cheaper FX 3100 option would have been welcome. While the 3D performance is impressive, it’s important to note that the only truly workstation-class 3D card that Apple offers is the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500, which adds a hefty £1,050 to the price. Analogue resolution support is up to 2048 x 1536 pixels. The system has support for up to eight displays and digital resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 pixels dual-link DVI ports support up to 2560 x 1600 pixels. The Mac Pro has a double-wide, 16-lane PCI Express graphics slot with the option to install an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT with 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM, one single-link DVI port, and one dual-link DVI port an ATI Radeon X1900 XT with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM and two dual-link DVI ports or an NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, two dual-link DVI ports, and one stereo 3D port. This is hardly surprising as the unit itself is sold as ‘fully configurable’, so you choose the same Mac Pro on the Apple Store and upgrade the chip from the suggested ‘Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon’ to the new ‘Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon’ option and pay an extra £960 in the process.Įverything else remains the same. Rival PC makers only have access to the 2.66GHz model and aren’t expected to get their hands on the 3.0GHz unit until July 2007.Īside from the exclusive and – admittedly very fast – CPU, the new Mac Pro remains identical to its predecessors. The 3.0GHz processor is exclusive to Apple (at least for the time being) and is the fastest ‘Clovertown’ processor on the market (Apple doesn’t refer to Clovertown in its specifications of the Mac Pro, but that’s the Intel processor at its heart).
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