Well, no need to wait until NAB for Apple’s announcement of its 8-core Mac Pro, because it’s here already. Once Adobe CS3 shipped, it was only a matter of time before Apple unveiled its new high-end pro hardware, and here we have it. If you order now, your machine will ship within 24 hours. Nice.
The 8-core machine houses two quad-core Intel Xeon “Clovertown” processors, each running at 3.0 GHz. You can now get 3 TB of internal storage and a max of 16 GB RAM. Oh, and you also get four PCI Express expansion slots plus the plethora of ports Apple typically ships on its pro towers.
Suddenly, my MacBook Pro doesn’t look so badass anymore.
Want to try something fun? Price one of these babies out for the highest end. Don’t include an LCD panel.
- Two 3.0 GHz quad-core Xeons
- 16GB of 667 MHz fully-buffered ECC RAM
- 4 x 750 GB HDs, 7200 RPM, SATA, 3.0 Gb/s transfer rate
- nVidia Quadro FX 4500, 512 MB, stereo 3D, 2 x dual-link DVI
- Two 16x SuperDrives
- Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and Airport Extreme
- Wireless keyboard and Mighty Mouse
- Applecare
All this can be yours for a low low $12,427 before tax. My student discount gives me $11,208.
It’s difficult to argue that this very likely could be the nicest desktop machine on the planet.
18 responses so far ↓
Brian Purkiss // April 4, 2007 at 10:58 am
HOLY COW!!!!!!!
*drools*
It’s so beautiful… even though it doesn’t look any different…
Gosh that’s a lot of power…
David H Dennis // April 4, 2007 at 11:02 am
Oh, come on, live it up and include the dual 30″ LCD monitors with appropriate display card hardware.
And forget about getting 16GB RAM from Apple; it’s going to be a lot cheaper from Kingston or Crucial.
If you can stand the standard RAM and only one 30″ Cinema Display, you’re talking about under $8,000. Not too bad.
I have to admit I was hoping it would be much cheaper (like at the $2999 price point for the basic system), but I seem to remember the processor alone is over $1,000 each from Intel, so that was probably not realistic :-(.
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Mark // April 4, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Haha…
If you make one in the Danish Apple Store, you’ll need to hand a smashing $18,812 to the Firm (with taxes and everything).
And no, I can’t configure it with the 8-core as of now - so it’s with the 3.0 GHz Quad-Core option!
That makes it probably around $22,000 with the octo-core option.
Seriously, though; has anybody ever ordered a machine like this in real life, and not just configured it for fun?
bryan // April 4, 2007 at 1:43 pm
That’s so ridiculous it’s not even funny.
Bill // April 4, 2007 at 2:15 pm
I am repeating, but I have the Mac Pro Tower quad 3 GHz, 2 GB RAM, ATI 1900XT and put two 500GB HD’s in a RAID 1. The stock 250GD HD is still inside.
It is very fast. You can order the refurb for $500 less and get a 3 year warranty [which I would buy anyway, because of the potential loss at this price level] to have the same machine for at least 3 years. We all know that it will last many more.
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MJ // April 5, 2007 at 12:05 am
Now why would that scare women and children?
Brian Purkiss // April 5, 2007 at 12:25 am
Because it’s so powerful…
English Actor // April 5, 2007 at 6:01 am
I wonder what sort of computer application I’m currently using would require such power.
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dresstosurvive // April 5, 2007 at 9:37 am
And you’re not the market they’re aiming for. This ain’t prosumer. This is workstation quality. A company won’t mind dropping 12 grand on a workstation for their audio engineer. Hell, they probably spent twice that on the mixing board.
stufforama // April 5, 2007 at 9:47 am
I agree with MJ…why would it scare women and children. Surely that’d be illegal. :o)
MJ // April 5, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Isn’t that sexist to think that children and women wouldn’t control the new ‘powerful’ technology?
Some men just can’t handle that there are children and women who are better in technology than them.
Jeff Ventura // April 5, 2007 at 1:39 pm
MJ, stuff: It’s a figure of speech.
stufforama // April 8, 2007 at 4:31 am
Jeff…one day you’ll be able to convey irony over the web.
People seem to claim everything else for Web 2.o so maybe I should work on that!!
All the best.
Jeff Ventura // April 8, 2007 at 7:51 am
Stuff: no matter what you say, someone has an axe to grind. It’s crazy.
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