08-07-2018, 07:05 PM
https://www.cultofmac.com/496016/apple-h...ro-launch/
August 7, 2006: Apple unleashes the Mac Pro, a high-end desktop computer that complete’s the company’s transition to Intel processors.
Built for computation-heavy tasks like 3D rendering and professional audio and video editing, the quad-core, 64-bit Mac Pro serves as a replacement for the Power Mac G5 (from which it borrows its aluminum “cheese grater” design).
“Apple has successfully completed the transition to using Intel processors in just seven months — 210 days to be exact,” said Steve Jobs in a press release. “And what better product to complete it with than the new Mac Pro, the workstation Mac users have been dreaming about?”
Twin dual-core Intel Xeon 2.0, 2.66 or 3.0 GHz processors. powered the Mac Pro “Quad Core” tower. Apple said the new Mac brought twice the performance of the machine it replaced, with more internal storage, too. (The Power Mac G5’s internal design centered on cooling down its excessively hot processors.)
The Mac Pro’s Intel Xeon processors ran much cooler. That freed Apple to put space previously earmarked for a cooling system to alternate use. While the Power Mac G5 could accommodate only two Serial ATA drives, the Mac Pro housed up to four.
