WWDC 2019: Apple's new Mac Pro is a monster of a workstation

You want the ultimate Mac? The Mac Pro is the workstation for you.

• See it now: Mac Pro at Apple

Apple has announced its long-awaited Mac Pro update, and it's an absolute monster of a workstation.

Here's what we know:

• Custom stainless steel and aluminum chassis (complete with wheels to make moving it about the office or studio ease)
• Up to 28-core Intel Xeon processor delivering 300 Watts of performance
• 12 DIMM slots 2933MHz ECC 6-channel
• 8 internal PCIe slots
• Four Thunderbolt 3 slots, two USB-A slots and a 3.5mm headphone jack
• MPX graphics card modules featuring PCIe x16 plus a separate connector for PCIe, DisplayPort, and power 
• MPX Modules feature Radeon Pro 580X or Radeon Pro II GPU allowing for up to 14 teraflops of processing and 32GB of HBM2 graphics RAM
• Support for two MPX Modules
• Support for regular graphics cards
• Afterburner module for video rendering and ProRes and ProRes RAW acceleration capable of playback of 3x 8k streams, and 12x 4k streams
• 1.4KW power supply
• 3x fans pulling in air, and a separate fan for circulating the air
• Price starting at $5999 for 8-core Xeon, 32GB RAM, AMD WX 7100 GPU, and 256GB SSD
• Available in a format for rack mounting
• Available this fall

WWDC 2019: The new Mac Pro

Do you want one? How much do you think the top-spec model will cost? Let me know!

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