The graphics power for video is worthy of particular mention - it's called Apple Afterburner, an Apple-designed card available on the top models. It's for those who need the best they can get.
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Of course, this machine isn't intended for mere mortals - professional-level video editing is going to be the Mac Pro's bread and butter.
In terms of what you can do, Apple says it can happily handle three streams of 8K RAW video or 12 streams of 4K. The system is, says Apple, as quiet as an iMac Pro. And definitely not on top of a desk the wheels are meant for the floor! Supreme graphics power One interesting point is that the wheels don't lock in place - so don't keep it anywhere it might fall. However, as Apple Insider notes, Apple is probably going to offer them as an aftermarket purchase soon. In other words, if you didn't book them at the beginning, you couldn't get them. The bottom of the case can be fitted with wheels should you so desire, but these were originally designed as a non-user upgradeable once the system had been purchased. Powering the whole thing is a 1.4kW power supply. The Mac Pro also boasts eight PCIe expansion slots (64 PCI Express lanes) and stacks of ports, too. But then they won't be undertaking the kind of tasks the Mac Pro will be. Just think about that for a second most everyday Macs are still running 8 or 16GB of memory.
There are 12 physical DIMM slots for a whopping maximum 1.5TB of RAM - twice as many slots as its predecessor. These are based on Intel's Skylake microarchitecture. Some unbelievably serious power can be installed in this modular system - up to 28-core Intel Xeon W processors can be specified at an astronomical cost, although you can also get 8, 12, 16 or 24 core chips, too. Apple pledged to better look after its pro-level users, a pledge which you have to say has been fulfilled - and not just for desktops. The iMac Pro was released in the meantime, designed to fill the gap between the iMac and the Mac Pro.
And that, in a rare admission, he suggested Apple had made a mistake.īut while 2017 saw a performance bump on that design, Apple also said at the same time that it would bring us a new Mac Pro. Schiller declared at that same meeting it was going to redesign the Mac Pro and make it modular. In other words, it couldn't be upgraded because the design couldn't cope with the increased heat from ever more complex hardware. The outgoing second-generation cylindrical Mac Pro that debuted in 2013 was a great idea, but it was something a Mac Pro shouldn't be - unable to adapt to changes in the computing landscape.Īpple's Phil Schiller admitted in 2017 to a small group of journalists that the design couldn't cope with increased thermal demands.
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They go through - in exhaustive detail - the full specs of the hardware including exhaustive details about expandability including recommendations about how to add extra memory, for example, without compromising performance. These could help some potential purchasers decide which model to go for. These comprehensive PDFs are designed to see off any questions from potential purchases about the high-end capabilities of the new devices. This new powerhouse is a superbly-designed machine - just flick through our gallery above.Īs with the first generation of the Mac Pro, as well as the PowerMac G5, it features handles on top and a slide-off case design just like earlier cases.Īpple has now posted white papers for the Mac Pro itself as well as the Pro Display XDR. And yes, it looks like a cheese grater - reminiscent of the Power Mac G5 and the early-generation Mac Pro design from 2006 onwards.
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(Pocket-lint) - The long-awaited new Mac Pro workstation PC is now available.