Apple Outs 12-Core Mac Pro on Web Store
Apple Outs 12-Core Mac Pro on Web Store
Posted 08/10/2010 at 6:08am
| by Paul Lilly
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Apple already unveiled its 12-core Mac Pro machine a month ago, but up until now, you haven't been able to purchase one. Now you can, assuming you have a spare $5,000 bill bouncing around in your pants pocket and aren't put off by the so-called "Apple tax."
That five grand nets you two Intel Xeon "Westmere" 6-core processors clocked at 2.66GHz, with a $1,200 upgrade option bumping you up to two 2.93GHz Westmere parts. The upgraded Mac Pro comes standard with 6GB of DDR3 ECC memory, 1TB hard drive, ATI Radeon HD 5770 videocard, and an 18X DVD burner.
For kicks and giggles, we configured a fully decked out Mac Pro with two of the faster Xeon chips, 32GB of memory, a dedicated RAID card, four 512GB SSDs, a pair of Radeon HD 5770 cards, two optical drives, two 30-inch displays, tons of software, and everything else that was available, bringing the final tally to $24,603.85.
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tonytober
August 21, 2010 at 5:54pm
Who the heck will use 12-cores ? 6-cores is already useless, and wuad is overpowered... The only thing you need to make your PC good at everything if you already have a minimum of a dual-core is a good graphics card that can cost you about 200$ that can last up to 4-5 years, so what about this 24000 dollars that worth a **** car... Also, will you feel the difference between that super-weird Mac and a nice and beautiful built dream machine that cost you about 23000$ less and more powerfull ? "Dude! Apple is always good!" Uh... dude? It's only because the chassis/case is grey and white.
dracx619
August 23, 2010 at 1:56am
as i first mentioned, machines like this are meant for professionals who use memory, and cpu intensive apps like media professionals and cad people (i honestly dont know what they do, im just a media pro) comparable windows machines from hp and dell cost about the same. these are also targeted towards pros who are afraid of tinkering or simply dont have the time time to bother with having to set it up. in short, those who can and know will save money, those that can't or are unwilling, well, there goes a bad ass car you could of had.
persondude
August 11, 2010 at 4:32am
Dear Apple,
This is what I'm getting out of a $4,000 part limit.
INTEL i7 930 (O.C. to 4.2)
Corsaid Nova 32GB SSD
WD Caviar Black 1TB HDD
12GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 RAM
2x NVidia GTX 480 in SLI
Asus Rampage III mobo
LIAN LI PC-K62R1 Chassis
Corsair TX series 950W PSU
Custom Liquid cooling with dual radiators
PLEXTOR Black 12X Blu-ray burner
I officialy offer my formal challange to you Mac Pro! Bring it!
Keith E. Whisman
August 11, 2010 at 5:16am
I would get a minimum of 1200watt power supply with more than one GTX 480 Graphics card.
nadako
August 10, 2010 at 7:35pm
then a newly bought car with no real use. Who the heck need 12 core's right now seriously 4 is enough for me. Just build your own kick ass computer and keep your extra 20G or more. Seriously its like 2G to buy the two 6 core processors. Its way over priced.
Biceps
August 10, 2010 at 9:32am
Now, for only $24K, you can play your choice of casual game on this Mac at 1,345,627,213 fps. Sorry, no real games available.
Keith E. Whisman
August 10, 2010 at 8:42am
So they can get faster storage and the same procs as DM2010 but their best graphics suck.. Mac graphics options are pathetic.
I'd bet Mac would make millions if they would sell their Mac Pro desktop cases to the masses for around $150bucks a pop. I've always lusted after that case, but I couldn't stomach the hardware options or the price tag for a Mac. I do want that case.
And Mac does have something else I want and that is the latest Mac Book pro. I want that unibody laptop. Those things are just sexy. Give the MB Pro a Num Keypad and give some better graphics options with the option of using a high end large SSD and I'm sold. I'll buy one and install Windows 7 on it and forget about OSX. I like it because it appears to be tougher, being capable of handling the riggers of college life with out breaking and also the 8hour battery is just awesome. Can't argue with battery life.
tri8gman
August 10, 2010 at 10:56am
We have a Mac Pro at my workplace, and I had an opportunity to crack it open to see what my drive options were. It's seriously weird. The RAM slots are on daughtboards that slide into their own expansion slots.
One nice feature I liked, though, is they have the SATA ports routed to the bays. Desktop hard drives with the convenience of a laptop hard drive. Attached and click.
The rest of it was just... weird.
COMMANDER_COOK
August 10, 2010 at 7:58am
For kicks and giggles, I've gotten my Newegg shopping cart up to $4,000,000.
I've been a MPC member since August 09. Why should I have to pass through a captcha?
JoetheMobster
August 10, 2010 at 6:30am
bah, I'll take the DM2010 and pocket the extra 10 grand thanks!
dracx619
August 10, 2010 at 6:28am
yes, we no doubt can build one cheaper and better. i did so myself with all identical components in the base 12 core model and those that were not exact, were comparable server-workstation quality parts. total price=around 1k cheaper than the mac daddy. that being said, this is targeted towards non techie professionals that just need something quick and ready to go for their companies or production houses. windows alternatives cost around the same and some cost even more with these specs. im jus glad im a creative pro that can pocket that money and build my own system. pays to know ey?
Blues22475
August 10, 2010 at 6:15am
Apple. It seems Apple has entered the Hexacore game (or maybe they hit it already just didn't annouce it).
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