Apple: New Mac Pro is 'the fastest Mac we've ever made'

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Apple revised these two products and announced the new Mac Pro has two 45-nm Quad-Core Xeon processors with up to 3.2 GHz and up to 4TB of internal storage. They are available for sale at their Apple stores with prices starting from $2,799.

Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, said:

The new Mac Pro is the fastest Mac we've ever made…With 3.2 GHz 8-core Xeon processing, a 1600 MHz front side bus and 800 MHz memory, the new Mac Pro uses the fastest Intel Xeon architecture on the market."

It is two times faster than the previous Mac Pro it released last year.

The new Mac Pro will have an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card with 256MB of video memory as standard, but if you need a high performance graphics card you can choose from the following here.

The basic 8-core Mac Pro, with a suggested retail price of $2,799 (US), will include the following:

- two 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors with dual-independent 1600 MHz front side buses;
- 2GB of 800 MHz DDR2 ECC fully-buffered DIMM memory, expandable up to 32GB;
- ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory;
- 320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
- 16x SuperDrive(TM) with double-layer support (DVD+/-R DL/DVD+/-RW/CD-RW);
- two PCI Express 2.0 slots and two PCI Express slots;
- Bluetooth 2.0+EDR; and
- ships with Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse.

For a complete list of specifications click here.

It doesn’t have Blu-ray support, but Engadget says it is easily configurable.

Combined with the Leopard operating system, the Mac Pro will become more powerful than the best Windows computer on the market.