Apple announced a new Mac Pro that pairs two of Intel 's new 45-nanometer quad-core 3.2-gigahertz Xeon processors, putting eight processor cores into Apple's powerful workstations.
When Hertzfeld, who now works at Google, went to the Apple store, he found that Apple did indeed update the Mac Pro, though stage time at WWDC was devoted to faster new MacBook Air notebooks, updated MacBook Pro notebooks and a new high-end MacBook Pro with a high resolution Retina Display.
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The Mac Pro, possibly Apple's worst kept secret in the last couple of years picks up where the Power Cheesegrater Power Mac G5 left off, with the same cheese grating action, but a whole lot more under the hood.
Some have speculated that the Mac Pro is no longer profitable for Apple.
The performance per watt is supposedly 3x that of the G5, and Apple is stuffing a pair of the chips in each new Mac Pro.
Several thousand people are willing to give Apple thousands of dollars for a new, highly configurable and upgradeable Mac Pro.
An Apple spokesman just told me that new models and new designs of the Mac Pro are in the works and will likely be released in 2013.
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Every computer after that was an Apple: Mac SE, PowerBook 100, PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.
Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) announced a new Mac Pro that pairs two of Intel 's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) new 45-nanometer quad-core 3.2-gigahertz Xeon processors, putting eight processor cores into Apple's powerful workstations.
Seeing as the fiscals were released back in late October along with the last refresh of hardware ( Mac Pro specs notwithstanding), it seems everyone decided to spend their holiday bonuses on some Apple shares.
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Apple and Foxconn are moving Mac mini production to the US, says DigiTimes, contradicting earlier rumors that a redesigned Mac Pro would be the first to land in the country.
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