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Mac Pro

At the heart of the new Mac Pro's performance are next generation quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors running at speeds up to 3.33 GHz. These multi-core processors use a single die design so each core can share up to 12MB L3 cache to improve efficiency while increasing processing speed. These systems feature an integrated memory controller for faster memory bandwidth and reduced memory latency; Turbo Boost to dynamically boost processor speeds up to 3.6 GHz; and Hyper-Threading to create up to 24 virtual cores. The Mac Pro now comes with the ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics processor with 1GB of memory and customers can configure-to-order the even faster ATI Radeon HD 5870 with 1GB of memory.

Standard configurations | We can also supply custom configurations, click here.

Mac Pro 2.8GHz Quad-Core Xeon

  • 2.8GHz Quad-Core Xeon W3530
  • 8MB of fully shared L3 cache
  • 3GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 16GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
  • 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm
  • 18x double-layer SuperDrive
  • 4 x full-length PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots for specialised cards
  • 2 x Mini DisplayPorts and 1 x DVI (dual-link) port
  • Convenient front and rear I/O and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports for connecting a variety of devices
  • AirPort Extreme 802.11n & Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
  • Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad and Magic Mouse
  • Optional Processors, Hard Drive, RAID and Graphics expansion.

$3,499 RRP

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Mac Pro 2 x 2.4GHz Quad-Core Xeon

  • 2 x 2.4GHz Quad-Core Xeon
  • 12MB of fully shared L3 cache per processor
  • 6GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 32GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
  • 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm
  • 18x double-layer SuperDrive
  • 4 x full-length PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots for specialised cards
  • 2 x Mini DisplayPorts and 1 x DVI (dual-link) port
  • Convenient front and rear I/O and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports for connecting a variety of devices
  • AirPort Extreme 802.11n & Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
  • Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad and Mighty Mouse
  • Optional Processors, Hard Drive, RAID and Graphics expansion.

$4,899 RRP

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Configuration options

Mac Pro options:

Faster Processor

More Memory

Larger Drive

Additional Drives

Faster Graphics

Raid Card

Extra Optical Drive

Display

Wireless Card

Fibre Channel Card

Wireless Mouse

Wireless Keyboard

and more...

Why a customised Mac?

Some software packages - such as professional video or image applications - may recommend or require more memory and faster processors. Hard-core gamers may want to max out the memory or graphics capabilities.

In addition to helping you meet software requirements, maxing out your Mac can also help to make you more productive. For example, additional memory can let you do more things simultaneously - and have the computer work faster - when you get busy. People with large media collections will want the largest hard drives available.

What do these options actually mean?

Faster processor - high speed. The processor is the brains of your Mac. Every second, it completes the billions of calculations needed to perform every computing task. Most Mac models feature the Intel Core 2 Duo family of processors, with twin processor cores that pack twice the power of a standard processor in the same space.

More memory - work quickly. RAM (Random Access Memory) is the memory your Mac uses to run software applications and store frequently accessed data. Adding RAM improves the performance of your entire experience: opening and working with large files; using the Finder and other elements of Mac OS X; and running graphics, audio, video, and scientific applications. In addition, more RAM speeds up your computer when you have lots of applications open at the same time.

Larger Drive - more room. The hard drive is where your Mac stores all your data when you're not using it. The capacity of a hard drive, measured in gigabytes, or GB, tells you how much room you have to store your files and applications. A typical application today may take 10 to 50 megabytes (MB); photos may take up about 2-4MB each; graphics files can occupy more than 100MB; and video files are often many gigabytes in size.

Graphics processor - everything looks better. A graphics processor is simply a processor dedicated to turning huge amounts of data into graphics and video output. By taking this task away from the main processor, a graphics processor also makes the entire system faster and more responsive.