Credit: Apple/ Digital Arts
Is it a garbage bin? A barrel vacuum cleaner? Part of an air conditioner? No, it's the new Mac Pro workstation.
Why a cylinder? Well, it's tiny (25cm tall, 16cm diameter), so it's probably for cooling ... or ... this is Apple we're talking about, maybe it's just for style.
http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/creative-hardware/apple-launches-2013s-mac-pro-completely-redesigned-inside-out/ / bin-shaped bin shaped new Mac Pro incredibly powerful set components wrapped around innovative cooling system Apple taken wrapper completely redesigned Mac Pro workstation one eighth 8 eight size of previous model design compared bin dusty bin Daft Punk helmet something Dyson would create air-conditioning unit comparison more accurate design new Mac Pro getting airflow through top of the range top-of-the-range components tiny in size Mac Pro main rival’s flagship desktop workstations Dell Precision T7600 HP Z820 Lenovo ThinkStation D30 arranged components around a central wind tunnel single big fan engineer engineering engineered design designed everything cool keep keeping noise minimum full chassis measures 25cm tall 16cm diameter top flight workstation 2013 Mac Pro single Intel Xeon processor Intel’s Ivy Bridge workstation-class workstation class processors which offer up to 12 cores Intel announced April release released releasing Q3 2013 July to September Apple ship shipped shipping later this year fit timeframe dual eight-core chips total 16 cores upgrade upgraded two 12-core Xeon processors 12 core total of 24 size cooling system Mac Pro prevent two processors creative applications Apple RAM the 2013 Mac Pro support 1,866MHz ECC RAM fast faster speed memory 1,600MHz feature features PCIe flash storage data transfer rate 1,250MBps 2.5x 2.5 times fast faster fastest SATA-based SATA flash storage 10 10x faster 7,200rpm SATA drive very expensive small capacity external drive projects project graphics dual graphics chips AMD AMD’s FirePro range. card cards includede quoted specs specification specification chips AMD’s top-of-the-line FirePro W9000 graphics card feature 6GB of graphics RAM ECC RAM 384-bit memory interface 264GBps memory bandwidth VFX editing work full-res 4K video output three 4K displays at once PC based PC-based FirePro W9000 display ports DisplayPorts six Thunderbolt 2 ports can be used as mini-DisplayPort outputs output monitors adapter Apple’s MacBook Pro iMac HDMI output back four USB 3.0 ports two gigabit ethernet port 20GBps gigabits per second data transfer attach devices device PCI array arrays external RAID storage devices Apple says that the all-black exterior lights ports when rotate 801.11ac wireless Bluetooth 4.0. review /
