Apple on Tuesday told us a lot more about its Mac Pro that's due out later this year. If you're in the U.S., you know it's going to set you back about $3,000. But what about folks in the UK? According to Pocket-Lint, you can expect to pay £2,499 for the base model of Mac Pro in the United Kingdom. Not great when you consider the U.S. price tag is well under £2,000 by today's exchange rates, but not unexpected.
Assembled in the United States, the Mac Pro features a 3.7 GHz quad-core Xeon from Intel. This is working alongside two AMD FirePro D300 GPUs, 12 GB of 1866MHz DDR3 RAM, 256 GB of PCIe flash storage (read/write speeds of 1.2 GBps/1 GBps) and up to six Thunderbolt 2 ports. Customers can configure their Mac Pro with as much as 64 GB of RAM and 1 TB of flash storage, so while pricing starts at £2,499, you can expect that baseline price to rise if you make changes to the specs.
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The Mac Pro's glossy, cylindrical design is drastically different than anything Apple has done before. Apple's marketing chief Phillip Schiller called the center of the Mac Pro's design a "thermal core" back in June. The cooling solution is certainly innovative, featuring a center piece made of a three-sided heatsink, with each side cooling the entire length of each PCB. A single large fan pulls the hot air up and out.
Apple promised a December ship date at its event on Tuesday though the company didn't specify whether the Mac Pro would enjoy a global roll out at that time.
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