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2012 Mac Pro To Feature Xeon E5 Processors?


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Apple’s Mac Pro range is definitely due an upgrade, and we have been hearing rumors over the last few months that Apple are working on a new Mac Pro.

Now according to a recent report by The Inquirer, the 2012 Mac Pro range will feature Intel’s new Sandy Bridge E server chips, which are also called the Xeon E5 series.

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Intel are expected to launch the new Xeon E5 processors some time next week, so we could possibly see a new range of Mac Pro’s launch at the same time.

According to the guys over at Mac Rumors, these new Xeon E5 processors are expected to bring a significant upgrade to the Mac Pro range, which last had a refresh back in 2010.

Source Mac Rumors

 

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  • Nathan Rich

    Mac Pros are so vastly inferior to their PC counterparts, even in 2010 but moreso now, hopefully they can start adding features that $50 motherboards already have, like onboard SATAIII. I would say the basic features of this device are such low quality that I’d much rather see a hardware DVD eject button, hard drive bays that don’t hurt to use, a better working case design, SATAIII, USB 3.0, a much more reliable boot up process, a handle made for humans with hands and not robots, and some PC key emulation for bootup, to allow many more PCIe cards to be used with it. Mac Pros are the least compatible, most expensive, hardest to customize, and slowest mainstream ‘top shelf’ computers in the market today. I don’t care if they add 4 Xeons, they need to fix their product line or it will be dying out, like XServe.

  • hard drive bays that don’t hurt to use?  what do you mean by that?  if you’re talking about pinching your fingers when pulling them out, the new Mac Pros fixed that…with longer trays