• Apple Refreshes Mac Line-up

    Apple Refreshes Mac Line-up

    Techtree News Staff, Mar 04, 2009 1735 hrs IST

    Brings out editions of iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Pro and Mac Keyboard

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Mac Pro


Though unexpected, the Mac Pro got a well deserved update with a new quad-core Nehalem chip, updated system architecture, graphics and price cut. Apple now offers the new Mac Pro in two options: quad-core Intel Xeon and dual quad-core Intel Xeon. Apple slashed the price of the base model from $2,799 (Rs. 1,40,000 approx.) to $2,499 (Rs. 1,25,000 approx.).


Apple claims the new Mac Pro is the fastest Mac ever with Intel's Nehalem microarchitecture based quad-core 64-bit Xeon processor with 8MB shared L3 cache. Also, up to 32GB DDR3 memory modules can be hooked to the system for faster performance.


Intel's Xeon chips have integrated memory controller that allow pairing 1066MHz DDR3 RAM. The base Mac Pro is equipped with Quad-Core 2.66GHz Intel Xeon processor and 3GB DDR3 1066GHz RAM. While the other version comes with two Quad-Core 2.26GHz Intel Xeon processors with 8MB shared L3 Cache per processor and 6GB DDR3 1066GHz RAM.


Mac Pro


In terms of graphics, Apple offers options up to four Nvidia GeForce GT 120 graphics card using GDDR3 video memory and ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics card with 512MB GDDR5 video memory. Also, Mac Pros can now support up to eight 30-inch displays with four Nvidia GeForce GT 120 graphics cards.


Both Mac Pro versions come with 640GB SATA HDD 7200RPM and can be updated to 1TB SATA 7200RPM HDD. The Mac Pro also features 18x SuperDrive with double layer support and three PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots for 16-lane cards.


The price of the 8-core Mac Pro version starts from $3,299 (Rs. 1,65,000). Apple has said that the new Mac Pro models will be available from Mar. 9.

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(6) Comments
Sam
,San Francisco, on Mar 05, 2009 11:28 PM
I ordered the Mac Pro a few days before they changed their entire lineup and I had the option of either sticking with the Mac Pro I originally ordered, or the new "top of the line" Mac Pro. The only problem is, it seems as though they lowered their prices on everything, but the new processors. From top to bottom, the 2.26GHz and the 2.93 has an overwhelming price difference! $2,600 in the US. Comparing what I ordered side by side with the 2.66GHz, the price for the new quad-core Nehalem chips is devastating to say the least, even if RAM has become dirt cheap. Is the price tag worth the "greatest and latest technology" ???
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Chris
,Toronto, on Mar 04, 2009 08:02 PM
You said "Apple surprised everyone with a slew of product refreshments much ahead of their respective time cycle." This is completely untrue. All three of the desktop products were in fact *overdue* for updates and in some cases this was the longest time between refresh ever experienced historically. Please correct the article.
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TT News
,Mumbai, on Mar 05, 2009 12:29 PM
@Chris, by "respective time cycle" we were referring to Apple's Annual product update time-cycle for their respective products like iPhone to get some update in June et al. Thanks for pointing out those tricky bunch of words though. Cheers.
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Greg H.
,Atlanta, on Mar 04, 2009 08:12 PM
Why would ANY computer today only come with 1 gig of DDR2 RAM?? By the time you upgrade the RAM to a respectable 4 gigs, add some space to the hard drive, and get Applecare, you're spending $1000.00 on the mini, and you're still only getting about one-third the computing power you can get by buying a same-priced higher end PC. OSX is great. It's a shame it's put into extremely overpriced "fluff" machines.
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Anonymous
,chi chi, on Mar 04, 2009 08:48 PM
Your forgetting that the average consumer does not need 4 gigs of ram, or 500 gigs of hard drive space. The mac mini is exactly what it's name projects, and it's marketed to consumers who are looking to surf the internet, watch a movie, maybe type a paper.
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ncd
,Kolkata, on Mar 05, 2009 06:08 AM
Also, you should keep in mind that MacOSX is not as crippled with 1 GB of Ram as a Windows Vista PC would be. The core of the system is very small and efficient.
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