Apple announces Mac Pro Quad Xeon 64-bit workstation

Apple introduces the Mac Pro, a new professional desktop computer that replaces its line of Power Mac machines. The Mac Pro completes Apple’s transition to Intel chips across its line of desktop and notebook machines. The standard Mac Pro is priced at US$2,499 (NZ$4,000), and ‘build to order’ will be available as well.

The Mac Pro will use Intel’s Dual-Core 64-bit Xeon 1500 series processor and support up to 16GB memory. It will support up to four 500GB SATA hard drives and comes standard with the NIVDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics card with 256MB of video memory. The ATI Radeon X1900XT and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500, both with 512MB of video memory, will be options. On Mac Pro, you can have up to four PCI Express graphics cards to drive up to eight displays at once, for advanced visualisation and large display walls. Just imagine how good it would be if you had 8 of the Apple 30-inch Cinema HD displays in front of you - a display wall of 20 feet!!

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