The Apple Mac Pro is a Xeon 3.2gh Intel Dual Quads with 8gigs of RAM and 1TB of internal storage. It comes complete with the Adobe Creative Suites 3 Design Standard, Capture One Pro 3.7.9 + 4.6, Lightroom 2.2, Canon DPP, Nikon PP, Leaf Capture, Sinar Capture, iMatch, Color Navigator, and SMC Fan Control.
Processing
8-core: Two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series processors
Enhanced Intel Core microarchitecture
- 12MB of L2 cache per processor (each pair of cores shares 6MB)
- 128-bit SSE4 SIMD engine
- 64-bit data paths and registers
- Energy efficiency optimization
1600MHz, 64-bit dual independent frontside buses
Memory
- 800MHz DDR2 ECC fully buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) memory
- Eight FB-DIMM slots on two memory riser cards (four slots per card) supporting up to 32GB of main memory
- 256-bit-wide memory architecture
Graphics and displays
- Double-wide, 16-lane PCI Express 2.0 graphics slot with one of the following graphics cards installed:
- ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory and two dual-link DVI ports
- Multiple graphics card configurations including two/three/four ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT cards
- 300W for up to four PCI Express graphics cards
- Support for up to eight 30-inch displays1
- Support for digital resolutions up to 2560 by 1600 pixels
- Support for analog resolutions up to 2048 by 1536 pixels
- DVI to VGA adapter included
- Dual-display support for extended desktop and video mirroring modes
Communications
- Two independent 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45) interfaces with support for jumbo frames
- Bluetooth 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) up to 3Mb/s
- Optional 802.11n AirPort Extreme wireless networking2
- Optional external Apple USB Modem (RJ-11)
Storage
- Four 3.5-inch cable-free, direct-attach hard drive bays with built-in independent 3Gb/s Serial ATA channels; four internal hard drive carriers included
- Up to 4TB of internal storage3 using hard drives in the following capacities:
- Hard drive bay 1
- 320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 8MB cache
- 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB cache
- 750GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB cache
- 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 32MB cache
- 300GB Serial Attached SCSI 3Gb/s, 15,000 rpm, 16MB cache4
- Hard drive bay 2
- 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB cache
- 750GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB cache
- 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 32MB cache
- 300GB Serial Attached SCSI 3Gb/s, 15,000 rpm, 16MB cache4
- Hard drive bay 3
- 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB cache
- 750GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB cache
- 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 32MB cache
- 300GB Serial Attached SCSI 3Gb/s, 15,000 rpm, 16MB cache4
- Hard drive bay 4
- 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB cache
- 750GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB cache
- 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 32MB cache
- 300GB Serial Attached SCSI 3Gb/s, 15,000 rpm, 16MB cache4
- Optional Mac Pro RAID card with 256MB cache and 72-hour cache battery backup5
- 16x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
- Writes DVD+R and DVD-R discs at up to 16x speed
- Writes DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL discs at up to 8x speed
- Writes DVD+RW discs at up to 8x speed
- Writes DVD-RW discs at up to 6x speed
- Reads DVDs at up to 16x speed
- Writes CD-R and CD-RW discs at up to 32x speed
- Reads CDs at up to 32x speed
- One open optical drive bay for optional second SuperDrive
Electrical and environmental requirements
- ENERGY STAR configurations available6
- Line voltage: 100-120V AC or 200-240V AC (wide-range power supply input voltage)
- Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz single phase
- Current: Maximum of 12A (low-voltage range) or 6A (high-voltage range)
- Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
- Storage temperature: -40° to 116° F (-40° to 47° C)
- Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
- Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet
Peripherals and audio
- Two FireWire 800 ports (one on front panel, one on back panel)
- Two FireWire 400 ports (one on front panel, one on back panel)
- Five USB 2.0 ports (two on front panel, three on back panel)
- Two USB 2.0 ports on included keyboard
- Front-panel headphone minijack and speaker
- Optical digital audio input and output TOSLINK ports
- Analog stereo line-level input and output minijacks
PCI Express expansion7
- Three open full-length PCI Express expansion slots
- One PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot
- Two PCI Express x4 slots
- All slots provide mechanical support for 16-lane cards
- 300W combined maximum for all PCI Express slots
Software
- Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard (includes Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Photo Booth, Front Row, Xcode Developer Tools)
- iLife ’08 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, and GarageBand)
- Adobe Creative Suites 3 (Photoshop, Bridge, Illustrator, InDesign, + Lightroom - upon request)
- Capture One Pro v3.7.9
- Canon Digital Solutions v17.1
- X-Rite Eye One Match v3.1
- SMC Fan Control v2
- Toast Titanium v9
Size and weight
- Height: 20.1 inches (51.1 cm)
- Width: 8.1 inches (20.6 cm)
- Depth: 18.7 inches (47.5 cm)
- Weight (standard configuration): 42.4 pounds (19.2 kg)8
In the box
- Mac Pro
- Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse
- DVI to VGA adapter
- USB keyboard extension cable
- Install/restore DVDs
Processor
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Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors
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Memory
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8GB of 800MHz DDR2 ECC fully buffered DIMM
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PCI Express graphics
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ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB (two dual-link DVI ports)
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Hard disk drive
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500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s; 7200 rpm; 16MB cache
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Internal RAID
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1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s; 7200 rpm; 16MB cache
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Optical drive
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Two 16x SuperDrive optical drives with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
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Wireless
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Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR / AirPort Extreme wireless networking2
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