At the WWDC 2019 event in California, Apple has upgraded its Mac Pro and the company has updated this after 2013 which means the company introduced the latest version of its desktop workstation after 6 years. The latest version is coming with the most powerful and expandable manner, along with the Mac Pro 2019, the company has unveiled the Pro Display XDR which is a brand new 6K HDR monitor. In this article, I will explain all the new features of both the devices along with the pricing and availability. So, let’s dig into the article to check out the complete information.
Mac Pro
The latest Mac Pro sports a design which echoes the original Mac Pro, it is coming with a steel body, a mesh front panel, and handles at the top. The company has designed the device in a way to be upgradeable with eight user-accessible PCIe slots. Apple has designed a new MPX module standard which includes the PCIe and Thunderbolt 3 connectivity in a form factor designed for easy cooling.
It is powered by an 8-core 3.5GHz Intel Xeon processor, with 12-core, 16-core, 24-core, and 28-core options. It will support up to 1.5TB memory and allows to configure up to two MPX modules, each comes with two newly announced AMD Radeon Vega II GPUs for up to 56 Teraflops of graphics bandwidth. And the new Mac Pro will have a 1400W power supply and up to two 2TB PCIe SSDs.
Furthermore, the device is also coming with Apple’s T2 security chip. It also supports Apple’s new Afterburner, which is a custom add-in video accelerator card that will allow three uncompressed 8K video streams to be played simultaneously.
In terms of connectivity options, the Mac Pro supports Thunderbolt 3, USB Type-A, dual 10Gigabit Ethernet ports, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, and Bluetooth 5.
Talking about the pricing, the base variant is priced at $5,999, and there’s no information about the higher-end configurations.
Pro Display XDR
It sports a 32-inch 6K Retina monitor with 1000nits of display brightness and up to 1600nits of peak brightness and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. The tech giant calls this “eXtreme Dynamic Range”, and it has been a fine-tuned direct backlight LED array and a rear panel that acts as a giant heatsink. Apple promises true 10-bit colour and super-wide viewing angles.
Regarding the pricing, it is priced at $4,999, but an anti-glare option with a finely etched glass panel will cost $5,999 and the detachable Pro Stand which allows for tilt, swivel and height adjustment will be available for $999.
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