Apple updates Mac Pro and Xserve with Intel Penryn processors
Posted on January 9th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple updated their Mac Pro and Xserve yesterday yesterday, exactly a week before Steve’s Keynote. Neither updates have design changes, but just internal changes. The Mac Pro comes with an 8-core processor standard and the new Xserve comes with Quad-Core standard (8-core an option). The new models are shipping now from the Apple Store.
My main guess is that they announced it early so they could make room for bigger and better things for the Keynote. I doubt Steve would want to introduce an update that’s not really big for his biggest event of the year.
Mac Pro - Standard Configuration - $2,799
- Two 2.8Ghz Quad-Core Xeon Penryn-Harpertown processors (meaning 8-core)
- 2 GB of 800MHz DDR2 RAM
- ATI Raedeon HD 2600 XT graphics card with 256MB of memory
- 320GB hard drive
- 16x double-layer SuperDrive
Of course you can customize your own for your needs with up to 3.2Ghz processor, 32GB of memory, 4TB of hard-drive space, and more. Visit Apple.com/MacPro for more information.
Xserve - Standard Configuration - $2,999
- One 2.8Ghz Quad-Core Xeon Penryn-Harpertown processor
- 1600MHz frontside bus and 12 MB L2 cache
- 2GB of memory
- 80GB hard drive
- Leopard Server Unlimited-Client Edition
These options are also customizable to your own needs. For more on the Xserve visit Apple.com/Xserve.
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