- #LOOKING FOR MAC PRO 2012 UPDATE#
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#LOOKING FOR MAC PRO 2012 PRO#
Not surprsingly, the 12-core Mac Pro excels with software that’s designed to take advantage of multiple cores. And even though they use the same graphics cards with the same 1GB of video memory, the 3.2GHz quad core Mac Pro is 21 percent faster in our Cinebench OpenGL test and 22 percent faster in our Portal 2 tests. The new quad-core 3.2GHz Mac Pro is faster than the new 12-core 2.4GHz Mac Pro in 11 of our 16 individual tests, including our iTunes encode test (17 percent faster), Pages import (16 percent faster), iMovie import test (16 percent faster), and our file compression test (15 percent faster). The new 12-core 2.4GHz Mac Pro is 10 percent faster overall than the 2010 eight-core 2.4GHz Xeon Mac Pro, and 31 percent faster from the 2009 eight-core 2.26GHz Xeon Mac Pro.Īs we’ve seen many times in the past, a system having fewer but faster processing cores will outperform (in all but a few of our tests) a system with more cores that run at a slower speed. Photoshop, for example, is 31 percent faster than the 2010 quad core model. While the file duplication test results are pretty much identical between the new low-end and the 2010 low-end Mac Pro, some tests were considerably faster on the new system, helped by a 14 percent faster processor and twice the RAM. Going back further, the new system is 44 percent faster than the 2009 low-end quad-core 2.66GHz Xeon Mac Pro. The new system is 8 percent faster than the 2010 eight-core 2.4GHz Xeon Mac Pro. The new quad-core 3.2GHz Mac Pro is 16 percent faster overall than the 2010 quad-core 2.8GHz Xeon Mac Pro, which is certainly nothing to sneeze at. Who wants to spend £3,099 on a system that begins its working life a year and half behind current technology? Even if new case and motherboard designs weren’t ready for release, it sure would’ve been nice if Apple included Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 connectivity via a PCI express card. What the new Mac Pros lack are Thunderbolt, USB 3.0, and new processor technology. It has two gigabit ethernet ports, built-in Wi-Fi, five USB ports, four FireWire 800 ports, two Mini DisplayPort connectors, and a dual-link DVI connector.
#LOOKING FOR MAC PRO 2012 FREE#
In an era where the company has begun using proprietary screws to keep casual DIYers from tampering with their own Macs, the Mac Pro has an easy-to-access case with three free hard drive slots, three empty PCI express card slots, and an extra optical bay. The Mac Pro is still Apple’s most customizable Mac. Both systems have 7200-rpm 1TB hard drives and ATI Radeon HD 5770 PCI Express graphics cards with 1GB of video memory.
The £3,099 Mac Pro has a pair of 6-core 2.4GHz Xeon E5645 processors, and 12GB of 1333 DDR3 RAM. The new low-end Mac Pro costs £2,049 and comes with a 3.2GHz quad-core Xeon W3565 processor and 6GB of 1066 DDR3 RAM. And while the Macworld Lab’s test results show the new Mac Pros to be considerably faster than those systems the new Mac Pros replace, it is hard to swallow new “pro” systems that lack Apple’s fastest connection, Thunderbolt, released on MacBook Pros 16 months ago, and USB 3.0 support that arrived on the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. The new Mac Pros use the same, highly-upgradable case design, the same graphics cards, and even the same version of USB as the last iteration.
The new Mac Pros released at WWDC 2012 represent a speed bump, plain and simple. In an email response to a concerned Mac Pro user, Apple CEO Tim Cook promised that the company was working “on something really great for later next year.”
#LOOKING FOR MAC PRO 2012 UPDATE#
In the nearly two years since the last update to the Mac Pro, you may have let your imagination go and allowed yourself to dream of a Mac Pro with an updated case design and the latest in peripheral connection ports. If you were looking for a bright side to Apple’s underwhelming updates to its Mac Pro line of tower computers, it would have to be that Apple hasn’t forgotten that it makes such a product. You can read our preview of the new Mac Pro here.īelow is our original review of the mid 2012 Mac Pro: The new Mac Pro was previewed at WWDC in June, and has already proved a hit with developers that attended the conference, who have described the computer as "astounding". The good news is that Apple has, however, unveiled a new Mac Pro, which will be available later this year.
#LOOKING FOR MAC PRO 2012 PROFESSIONAL#
Apple's Mac Pro is now listed as "currently unavailable" and is no longer available to order from the UK Apple site, due to an amendment to the IEC 60950-1 regulation that forced Apple to withdraw the professional Mac from sale in the EU.
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