AppleInsider Staff
The standard-configuration 12-core Mac Pro features two 2.4 gigahertz 6-core Intel Xeon E5645 processors and 12 megabytes of fully shared L3 cache per processor. The 12-core model starts at $3,799 with 12 gigabytes of memory, a 1-terabyte hard drive and ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics with 1 gigabyte of GDDR5 memory.
The quad-core Mac Pro features one 3.2 gigahertz quad-core Intel Xeon processor and 6 gigabytes of memory. It also features a 1-terabyte hard drive and ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1 gigabyte of GDDR5 for $2,499.
A Mac Pro server configuration is also available, featuring one 3.2 gigahertz quad-core Intel Xeon processor and 8 gigabytes of RAM standard. For $2,999 it features two 1-terabyte hard drives, the ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1 gigabyte of GDDR5 RAM, and it comes installed with OS X Lion Server.
Update: An earlier version of this article described the new 12-core Mac Pro chip as the "Xeon E5," but the Xeon E5645 found in the workstation is actually a two-year-old Westmere-EP chip.
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Identical graphics.
What are they playing at?! I WANT A NEW GPU, DANG IT.
Notice the lack of raid cards
WHAT ABOUT New iMac's ???
Any quiet updates there??
They just updated the main site from under me. :) it was still showing westmere when I replied on that other thread.
Shame the case didn't get a mod.
Boy talk about barely an update. The processors are the only thing updated. The graphics cards appear to be the same, USB 2.0 and on and on.... Last update for Mac Pro?
Why Apple did you have to do this - you've made it hard to go for this machine (the graphics cards are inexcusable).