In general, the Mac Pro has been well received in the press. The combination of high performance, reasonable expandability, very quiet operation and superb mechanical design makes it routinely appear as the comparison system against which other systems are measured. The Xeon platform is, however, Intel's "high end" system and not aimed at more general purpose use. Nevertheless, current-generation Xeons are priced competitively with their high-end desktop platforms, allowing Apple to sell a very powerful system at price points that are considered quite competitive, even by reviewers who do not normally review Apple systems
Apple updated Mac Pro in July 2010 (Available in Aug 2010) with the options of up to 12 processing cores, up to four optional 512GB solid state drives and ATI Radeon HD 5770/5870 graphics.
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I just replaced my five-year-old Dual 2.7 GHz PowerMac G5 with the Apple 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Mac Pro and what an improvement! The new Mac is at least three times faster doing processing tasks (exporting a movie from QuickTime, for example) than the old unit, and it's SILENT. Photoshop is a lot speedier and so is Quark (although the lengthy delay in startup hasn't changed--dang you Quark!). I've pushed it hard (transferring files from the old Mac while exporting a movie from QT, listening to iTunes, and working in Photoshop) without hearing the fans speed up even once! I have three 1-TB drives installed in the enclosure with one bay free, plus six 2-TB external drives hooked up via a Kensington USB Hub and file transfers happen reliably and quickly ... Read More
6 Core Mac Pro 3.33GHz - Z0LF - Originally $3,699
* July, 2010 Model
* One 3.33GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon “Westmere
* 3GB memory
* 1TB hard drive
* 18x double-layer SuperDrive
* ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5 Configurable options at the Apple Store
4 Core Mac Pro 3.2GHz - Z0LF - Originally $2,899
* July, 2010 Model
* One 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processor
* 3GB memory
* 1TB hard drive
* 18x double-layer SuperDrive
* ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5 Configurable options at the Apple Store
4 Core Mac Pro 2.8GHz - MC560LL/A - Originally $2,499
* July, 2010 Model
* One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processor
* 3GB memory
* 1TB hard drive
* 18x double-layer SuperDrive
* ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5 Configurable options at the Apple Store User Reviews
Mac Pro One 2.66GHz Quad-Core - MB871LL/A - Originally $2,499
* 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (One )
* 3GB memory
* 640GB 7200-rpm hard drive
* 18x SuperDrive
* NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB memory Configurable options at the Apple Store User Reviews
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