Apple Mac Pros and Xserve get Penryn processors
In what might be an omen of great things next week at MacWorld Apple has speed-bumped the Mac Pro and Xserve. Both boxes are now based on the Penryn processor recently released by Intel and first seen on Alienware’s Area 51 ALX CF back in November.
Here are the specs for both machines:
Apple Mac Pro
- Two 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors with dual-independent 1600 MHz front side buses;
- 2GB of 800 MHz DDR2 ECC fully-buffered DIMM memory, expandable up to 32GB;
- ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory;
- 320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
- 16x SuperDrive(TM) with double-layer support (DVD+/-R DL/DVD+/-RW/CD-RW);
- Two PCI Express 2.0 slots and two PCI Express slots;
- Bluetooth 2.0+EDR; and
- Ships with Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse.
- Price: £1,417 ($2,799, €1,902).
Apple Xserve
- A single 64-bit 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Xeon processor with 12MB of L2 cache and a 1600 Mhz front side bus;
- 2GB of 800 MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM RAM, expandable up to 32GB;
- A single 80GB SATA Apple Drive Module;
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet on-board;
- Internal graphics;
- Two FireWire(R) 800 and three USB 2.0 ports; and
- An unlimited client license for Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard.
- Price: £1519 ($2,999, €2,038).
This still leaves the new ultrathin MacBook, the rumoured tablet Mac, the expected iTunes movie rentals still to look forward to!
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January 9th, 2008 at 1:12 am
All that hardware for naught; it’s a f***ing Mac.