The New PRO-lific Mac
Apple debuted their new Mac Pro at WWDC on June 3rd and it has PLENTY of upgrades to offer:
• 300 watts of power, runs fully unconstrained
• 2933MHz ECC memory, 12 DIMM slots
• 8 internal PCI slots, four double-wide slots, three single side slots
• Half-length slot populated with two TB3 ports, audio jack, two USB A ports, two 10Gb Ethernet ports
• Up to 1.5 terabytes of RAM
• Intel Xeon processor with up to 28 cores
• Apple designed a PCI connector with a second PCIe connector and power
• Multiple graphics options; can configure with options such as Radeon Pro Vega II
• Two GPUs connected via Infinity Fabric Link, 5X faster than PCI bust
• Apple built a brand new card called Afterburner for video editing, 6 billion pixels per second. 3 streams of 8K, 12 streams of 4K
• Working with partners such as Adobe, Blackmagic, as well as internal teams like Final Cut Pro and Logic
• Brand new version of Logic with focus on performance
With stainless steel handles for modularity and all internal components able to mount to the frame with 360-degree components, the new Mac seems to be the most expandable and powerful version yet. You can get the new Mac starting at $5,999 for 8-core, 32GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD this fall.