In order to serve this market, Apple sells a variety of standardized bundles combining a Mac Pro with fairly high-end components for instance, all available setups can support the 30" Cinema Display. Apple's previous machine aimed at this market, the Power Mac G5, had up to four processors, but lacked the storage expansion capabilities of the newer design. Additionally, the codecs used in these applications are generally processor intensive and highly threadable, speeding up almost linearly with additional processor cores. Title=Apple's High Definition Future] which demands storage and memory far in excess of a general desktop machine. Although the high-end technical market has not traditionally been an area of strength for Apple, the company has been positioning itself as a leader in non-linear digital editing for high-definition video, [ cite news
The Mac Pro is a high-end computer, similar to higher end Optiplexes and Unix workstations from vendors such as SGI or Sun Microsystems. As such, the name "Mac Pro" was widely used before the machine was announced. Even the naming was "obvious" Apple had dropped the term "Power" from the other machines in their lineup, and started using "Pro" on their higher-end laptop offerings. But the coincidence of Intel releasing a new Core 2-based Xeon workstation platform just prior to the 2006 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) made it fairly obvious that the resulting machine would be based on it. Rumors initially expected the machine to differ physically from the existing G5 and considered a number of different possible internal configurations based on different chipsets. Speculation about the G5's eventual replacement was common. The iMac, Mac mini, MacBook and MacBook Pro had moved to an Intel-based architecture starting in January 2006, leaving the Power Mac G5 as the only machine in the Mac lineup still based on the PowerPC. Title=Apple adds 8-core option to Mac Pro]Īn Intel-based replacement for the Power Mac G5 had long been expected prior to the release of the Mac Pro.
On JanuApple unveiled the first 3.2 GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon (Harpertown 45nm) -based Mac Pro. Along with the Mac Pro, a new Xeon-based Xserve was also announced, completing Apple's transition from the PowerPC to x86 architecture. The Mac Pro was formally announced on Augat WWDC. They are currently one of three desktop computers in the Macintosh lineup. The machines are based on an Intel 5400 chipset (formerly Intel 5000X chipset) and Xeon microprocessors, but are similar to the Power Mac G5 they replaced in terms of outward appearance and expansion capabilities. Website = [ The Mac Pro is a workstation computer manufactured by Apple Inc.
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