New Mac Pro and Xserve

While I was away, and couple of days before the MWSF, Apple unveiled the new Penryn-powered Mac Pro and Xserve models. They all frature 8 cores, with frequencies ranging from 2.8 to 3.2GHz, with the entry-level Mac Pro priceed at US$2799.
They are all running on a 1600MHz FSB with DDR2 FB-DIMM 800 MHz. Apple offers 3 different graphic cards, from the Radeon HD 2600 with 256MB of VRAM, to the Geforce 8800 GT 512MB or the ultimat Quadro FX 5600 which can feature up to 1.5GB of VRAM!
All new models feature PCI Express 2.0, with 2 connectors at 16x and 2 at 4x.
If hte wireless Airport technology remains an option (amazing...), the BlueTooth 2.0 is now available by default as well as the Alu keyboard.
One can now install SAS HD spinning at up to 15,000rpm instead of SATA HDs only. If the default RAM installed is set to 2GB, one can boost it to up to 32GB!
For Xserve, specification are similar except for:
- only 3HDs
- only 2 PCI-Express 2.0 connectors
- Xeon clock speed tops at 3.0GHz
- different GPUs
According to information provided by Apple about the new MacPro some BTP option might delay the delivery by up to 3 to 5 weeks...
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