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Apple Mac Pro MA970LL/A Desktop (Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive, 16x SuperDrive)
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List Price: $2,799.00
Our Price: $2,739.00
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Product Details
- Binding: Personal Computers
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- Brand: Apple
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- CPU Manufacturer: Intel
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- CPU Type: Intel Pentium II Xeon
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- EAN: 0885909168606
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- Features: Two 2.8 GHz quad-core Intel Xeon processors with dual-independent 1600 MHz front side buses, 2 GB RAM expandable up to 32 GB, 320 GB hard drive, 16x Double-Layer SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB (Two dual-link DVI), Two FireWire 800 ports, two FireWire 400 ports, five USB 2.0 ports, and two USB 2.0 ports on keyboard, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard (includes Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Photo Booth, Front Row, Xcode Developer Tools), iLife '08 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, and GarageBand)
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- Label: Apple Computer
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- Manufacturer: Apple Computer
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- Model: MA970LL/A
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- Processor Count: 8
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- Product Group: Personal Computer
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- Publisher: Apple Computer
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- Studio: Apple Computer
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- System Memory Type: DDR2 SDRAM
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- Title: Apple Mac Pro MA970LL/A Desktop (Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive, 16x SuperDrive)
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- UPC: 718908999318
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: Start your engines, all eight of them. Eight-core processing power was once only top-of-the-line. Now it comes standard. This time around, performance is more phenomenal than ever - up to two times faster than the previous standard-configuration Mac Pro. And with the multi-core technology enhancements of Mac OS X Leopard, the new Mac Pro is a force to be reckoned with. For what ever your working on, either Photoshop or Final Cut Pro enjoy up to 1.8 times faster processing power with this new Mac Pro. All-new high-performance graphics cards from ATI make Mac Pro graphics technology even more cutting edge. ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory, PCI Express 2.0, and two dual-link DVI ports - provides great performance for typical creative applications. The Mac Pro has four 3.5-inch internal hard drive bays that allows for an enormous amount of internal storage, up to 4TB. These bays are direct-attach and cable free, just attach the drive carrier to a Serial ATA hard drive and slide the drive into place. Another smart design allows you to install more memory in a snap. Mac Pro has two memory riser cards with four fully buffered DIMM slots each. Just slide out the riser cards and snap in the memory. With a total of eight DIMM slots available, you can install up to 32GB of 800MHz ECC DIMM memory. If you're looking for a powerful and a sweet looking desktop this is the one for you. ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB GDDR3 video memory SuperDrive with double-layer support Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR Two independent 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet Front ports - FireWire 800, FireWire 400, 2 USB, Headphone minijack and speaker Back ports - FireWire 800, FireWire 400, 3 USB, Optical Digital Audio In/Out TOSLINK ports, Stereo line-level input/output, 2 RJ-45, 2 DVI ports Expansion slots - 2 PCI Express x4, 1 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Drive bays - One open optical drive bay for optional second SuperDrive, 4 internal 3.5 Mo
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Customer Reviews
NOT backwards compatible with OS 10.4
This is a fantastic computer, as all MACs are, but it comes with OS 10.5 Leopard installed is NOT backwards compatible to OS 10.4 Tiger. Tiger is the last operating system with Rosetta, which will run OS 9 programs. I need this backwards compatibility, so I had to return the system. That said, Amazon was very easy with the returns.
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Speed Demon!
Best Mac I've ever owned. Speed Demon! Very reasonable price for the performance! It's no mid-level computer but a truly high-end performer. Aperture, Final Cut Pro, file serving, etc all fly.
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Quiet, Heavy, Big. no AirPort option.
Quad-Core Xeon they call it, but Harpertown is the newest version and it is server grade COOOOL. Heat kills and this is fast and cool and should be around for a good long time. It is the easiest Mac to expand, period.
Amazon got it to me fast and in pristine shape.
RANT time! Can not order with AirPort installed. Airport for this puppy has three cables and you use two and is best done by Apple, really. So if AirPort is a must, the money you save here is not worth the hassel of taking this big dog in for the card.
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My best Mac ever.
I purchased this Mac particularly for it's processing power. I do a lot of work in 3D and my G5 was taking days to complete some of my rendering work.
This Mac has surpassed every expectation I had. Something that would take 42 hours to render gets completed in a bit under 8 hours.
If you need the processing power get this Mac, if you only need it for Adobe Creative Suite CS3 work, the iMac 24" is probably a better choice.
Aside from the processing superiority, what most impressed me was the ease of migrating my old Mac to this new one with Apple's Migration Assistant. Got everything done in a little bit over two hours. Did not have to reinstall any of my main applications, not even the Adobe CS3 suite. Very smooth and easy.
The fist thing that I did was plug in more RAM. I added 4 GB for a little bit under $200, so now I have 6 GB of RAM. I did notice a huge difference in speed after the upgrade, particularly running several things at once. I will probably add another 4 when my budget allows.
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Insane to the Brain!!!
Pro's
This computer is insane I usually run 3 operating system (OSX,VISTA 64 bit, XP 64 bit using vmware and only used about 12% on the computers power with about 9 programs open at the same time. I have 6 gigs, and the most Ive used so far was 5.3. I do a lot of video editing (final cut pro + soundtrack pro) and this machine will literally last me probably 7-10 yrs because of its power. I'd say this machine is 2 yrs ahead of it time! I have at one time used 76% of the computers power when I was encoding a video...... But other wise well built machine, and plenty fast! Plus its quieter than my macbook pro!!!
Con's
Memory 4 gbs $200! No choice for gpu's, but the one that comes with it is plenty good.
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