The 13-inch Pro comes standard with a 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz, with 64MB of eDRAM. The MacBook Pro is offered with 8th- and 9th-generation Intel Core processors. Granted, if you search hard enough, you’re bound to find something cheaper.Both of these machines are zippy. The lowest price we’ve seen is $1,999 in the US by a considerable margin. Still, our review unit was a custom build, thereby ramping the price up to $8,099/£6,579/AU$10,229).Įither way, you can find a Mac Pro from secondhand retailers for significantly cheaper. The two Mac Pro models you can buy right now will set you back $2,999/£2,499/AU$3,999 and $3,999/£3,299/AUD $5,299, respectively from Apple. The Mac Pro that we reviewed back in 2014 has a 3GHz, eight-core Xeon E5 coupled with a pair of AMD FirePro D700 GPUs, 64GB of RAM and 1TB of PCIe-based flash storage. Memory is industry-standard, so can be user-upgraded. Likewise, the processor (a Xeon E5) starts at a quad-core 3.7GHz, but it can be upgraded as high as a 12-core 2.7GHz chip. Off the shelf, these are Dual AMD FirePro D300 or D500 cards, but you can custom-configure them up to D700 GPUs with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM on the Apple Online Store.
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For wireless connectivity, there's 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0.Įvery system ships with dual GPUs.
There's also a HDMI port and two Gigabit Ethernet sockets, but don't expect an SD card reader. You can, of course, use Mini DisplayPort monitors in a Thunderbolt port, and with adapters (sold separately), you can also connect your old FireWire peripherals. As up to six Thunderbolt peripherals can be daisy-chained to each port, the Mac Pro can support up to 36 Thunderbolt devices at once. These are based on the Thunderbolt 2 protocol, which combines the two 10Gbs channels offered by first-generation Thunderbolt into one 20Gbs bi-directional channel, making it ideal for streaming large amounts of data, such as 4K video. There are four high-speed USB 3.0 ports, and six – yes, six – Thunderbolt ports. Most of the Mac Pro's main expansion options are geared around external peripherals, so it has an excellent range of data ports. Leave it still for a few seconds, and the light fades to off again. Even if the Mac Pro isn't currently powered up, the ports are lit so you can plug in or disconnect peripherals. Turn the Mac Pro to get at the expansion ports around the back (as far as a cylindrical casing can be said to have a 'back'), and they all light up. The 2013 Mac Pro is designed to be used on top of your desk, not underneath it, and its quiet running, attractive casing and minimal footprint means it's welcome to do just that.Ī single fan ensures (almost) silent runningĪpple is known for its delightful design features, and the new Mac Pro is no exception. Naturally, this means it runs very quietly. It draws air through the base and out through the top of the casing, over the heat sink that stretches from the top of the Mac Pro to the bottom. Where the previous Mac Pro had eight separate fans, the most recent Mac Pro only has one. SpecificationĪt the heart of the new Mac Pro is the thermal core, a unified heat sink around which the processor board and two graphics processor boards are attached. If you still use CDs and DVDs, you'll have to invest in a USB SuperDrive or similar external disc drive. Equally unsurprisingly, there's no optical drive. Unsurprisingly given its compact size and the way Macs have developed over the last few years, storage is solid state. At the same time, its two AMD FirePro GPUs deliver up to eight times the graphical performance of the previous-generation Mac Pros, though to be fair, when the 2012 Mac Pro went off sale in 2013 due to an amended EU safety regulation, the graphics card it offered was already well out of date.
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