Designed solely for professional users — but visually appealing to everyone else — the is the Ferrari of Apple computers. It originally debuted as the Power Mac G5 in 2003, updated internally and renamed Mac Pro in 2006, then completely redesigned in 2013. Dark gray with a cylindrical shape that lets fans breathe upwards and downwards, the Pro is only 9.9″ tall, 6.9″ in diameter, and 11 pounds in weight. That’s one-eighth the volume of its predecessor, transforming the former all-encompassing tower into a hub for any Thunderbolt or USB devices that you want to connect externally.
Sold in 4-, 6-, 8-, and 12-core versions, the Mac Pro includes a minimum of 12GB of RAM and 256GB to 1TB of flash storage. A single Mac Pro can power up to three 4K displays or six Thunderbolt displays at once, boasting four USB 3 ports, six Thunderbolt 2 ports, two Ethernet ports and an HDMI 1.4 port, plus 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4 wireless. You have to supply the monitor(s), keyboard, and mouse or trackpad yourself. Each new Mac Pro comes standard with dual AMD FirePro graphics cards, but the computer is highly customizable. Even the base model computer is powerful enough for those who need to process large videos, music tracks, and photograph collections, but the real power is in the upgraded models with additional cores, RAM, and storage. 2017 Mac Pro announcements In early 2017, Apple made a. The company explained that it is rethinking its Mac Pro approach and plans to unveil a new modular model sometime in the future.
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However, the new modular Mac Pro isn’t expected into 2018 at the earliest, with some reports claiming we might be waiting until 2019. Specific details regarding Apple’s new Mac Pro aren’t explicitly clear at this point, but the company seems to have reimagined its plans altogether, which comes as good news for those in the Pro market. Apple has been rather quiet about an it first teased a year ago. We did, though, learn two new things yesterday. Last year, all that Apple said about timing was that the new machine wouldn’t be released that year.
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As part of doing a new Mac Pro — it is, by definition, a modular system — we will be doing a pro display as well. Now you won’t see any of those products this year; we’re in the process of that. We think it’s really important to create something great for our pro customers who want a Mac Pro modular system, and that’ll take longer than this year to do. That left open the possibility that the machine might be launched in 2018, or it might be later – and we now know it’s the latter.