Apple's new Mac Pro to be available from Thursday, prices start Rs. 2,29,900

Apple has announced the all-new Mac Pro will be available to order starting Thursday, December 19. As revealed earlier, pricing starts at Rs. 2,29,900.

Redesigned from the inside out, the all-new Mac Pro packs the latest Intel Xeon processors, dual workstation-class GPUs, PCIe-based flash storage and ultra-fast ECC memory into an aluminium enclosure that is just 9.9-inches tall and one-eighth the volume of the previous generation. The Mac Pro features 4-core, 6-core, 8-core or 12-core Intel Xeon processors running at Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9GHz and two workstation-class AMD FirePro GPUs that deliver up to eight times the graphics performance of the previous generation Mac Pro.

PCIe-based flash storage delivers sequential read speeds up to 10 times faster than conventional desktop hard drives, and ECC DDR3 gives the new Mac Pro up to 60GBps of memory bandwidth for editing full-resolution 4K video while simultaneously rendering effects in the background. The all-new Mac Pro comes with six Thunderbolt 2 ports, each with up to 20Gbps of bandwidth per device and support for up to 36 high-performance peripherals, including the latest 4K displays.

The Mac Pro will be available with a 3.7GHz quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz, dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs with 2GB of VRAM each, 12GB of memory, and 256GB of PCIe-based flash storage starting at Rs. 2,29,900 inclusive of VAT; and with a 3.5GHz 6-core Intel Xeon E5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz, dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs with 3GB of VRAM each, 16GB of memory, and 256GB of PCIe-based flash storage starting at Rs. 2,99,900 inclusive of VAT.

The all-new Mac Pro will be available to order starting Thursday, December 19 through select Apple Authorised Resellers.