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Apple hexacore Xeon Mac Pro with 128GB RAM tipped for early 2010

Chris Davies, Oct 15th 2009 Discuss [0]

It's been a while since we've seen a significant refresh to Apple's Mac Pro desktop range, and so a rumor regarding what overwhelming components the company might slot inside is certainly timely. According to Hardmac's sources, Apple intend to outfit the Mac Pro with a 6-core, 12-thread Intel Xeon (Gulftown) processor, built on 32nm processes and with 12MB of shared cache. The hexacore CPUs will be accompanied by up to 128GB of RAM and a 10Gbit/s ethernet port. That will be thanks to a newly modified, custom mainboard with support for 8GB and 16GB memory modules. Early testing of the CPUs, at least, have indicated that the hexacore Xeon requires less power than a current-gen quadcore Xeon of the same 2.4GHz clock-speed. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 for Mac revealed

Brenda Stokes, Apr 20th 2009 Discuss [0]

NVIDIA announced their Quadro FX 4800 graphics card today, filling out their line up to include a card intended specifically for the Mac Pro. While this card is very much like the version for Windows, it does sport a few differences that are worth noting. Read The Full Story

MCE ships Mac Pro Blu-ray burner with 8x speeds

Brenda Stokes, Apr 10th 2009 Discuss [0]

MCE has really outdone themselves this time. Their latest offering is the Mac Pro Blu-ray Burner, but it's not the same as their first internal Blu-ray burner for the Mac Pro. This time around, it has even faster read/write speeds. Read The Full Story

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 10 2009

Chris Davies, Mar 8th 2009 Discuss [0]

As busy weeks go, this one has certainly been something to write home about (or at least a Week in Review about), with CeBIT, PMA and an Apple mega-announcement all taking place. ASUS arguably stole the former show in Germany, with the Eee PC 1008HA “Shell” once again proving that netbooks needn’t be the ugly cousins to expensive ultraportable notebooks. For our full CeBIT 2009 coverage, hit the tag.

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Apple Refreshes the Mac Pro Line with Intel Xeon “Nehalem” Processors

Ewdison Then, Mar 3rd 2009 Discuss [0]

Apple has introduced a new line of Mac Pros. Inside the new Mac Pro, Apple uses Intel’s latest Nahelem Xeon Processors. The new Mac Pro starts at $2,499 for a single CPU (Quad Core) configuration with Xeon 3500, 3GB of DDR3 RAM.

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