Apple’s cylindrical Mac Pro is a powerful beast

iPad and Mac Books were not the only highlights of the Apple ‘a lot to cover' event in US yesterday as the Cupertino-based company unleashed its cylindrical formed mean machine Mac Pro for users price starting at $2999 and available from December onwards.

First seen at the Apple WWDC event earlier this year, the Mac Pro packs a punch with the latest Intel Xeon processors with up to 12 cores, dual workstation-class GPUs fitted with six Thunderbolt 2 ports and for storage PCIe-based flash and ultra-fast ECC memory.

The Mac Pro is capable of handling 64 GB RAM, comes equipped dual AMD FirePro graphics chips with up to 6 GB memory, and one can store up to 1 TB of data on PCI Express-based solid state storage. In addition to all that high-end editing capability, one can plug up to three 4K TVs on the Mac Pro and edit 4K video streams and play them in real time.

Mac Pro can be powered by 4-core, 6-core, 8-core or 12-core Intel Xeon processors running at Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz. "Two workstation-class AMD FirePro GPUs with up to 12 GB video memory provide up to seven teraflops of compute power and up to eight times the graphics performance of the previous generation Mac Pro", said Apple.

Running on the Mavericks OS, the Mac Pro will be able to take advantage of the new features added by Apple.