Apple Mac Pro (3.0GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) - Black

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Brand	Apple
CPU Model	Intel Xeon
Computer Memory Size	16 GB
Model Name	Mac Pro
Graphics Coprocessor	FirePro

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Intel Xeon E5 Processor
Dual AMD FirePro Graphics
Ultrafast PCIe SSD storage
Six Thunderbolt 2 ports
Four USB 3 ports
Gigabit Ethernet and Wi-Fi
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Display	N/A	27-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit Retina 5K display	21.5-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display
Processor	3.5GHz 6-core Intel Xeon E5 processor with 12MB of L3 cache and Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz or 3.0GHz 8-core Intel Xeon E5 processor with 25MB of L3 cache and Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz	3.2GHz 8-core Intel Xeon W processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.2GHz	2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor; Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
Graphics	Dual AMD FirePro D500 with 3GB GDDR5 VRAM each or Dual AMD FirePro D700 with 6GB GDDR5 VRAM each	Radeon Pro Vega 56 with 8GB of HBM2 memory	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640
Storage	256GB SSD	1TB SSD	1TB (5400-rpm) hard drive
Keyboard and Mouse	N/A	Space Gray Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad, Space Gray Magic Mouse 2	Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse 2

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Apple Mac Pro (8-Core and Dual GPU)

Processor	3.0GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5 with 25MB L3 cache and Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz
Graphics	Dual AMD FirePro D700 graphics processors with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM each
Ports and Connections	Four USB 3 ports, six Thunderbolt 2 ports, HDMI 1.4 port, Dual Gigabit Ethernet, 3.5 mm headphone jack, 802.11 ac Wi-FI, Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology
In the Box	Mac Pro, power cord
Height	9.9 inches

Diameter	6.6 inches
Weight	11 pounds
Release Date	12/19/2013

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Product Dimensions

8.3 x 8.2 x 14.3 inches; 13.1 Pounds

Item Weight

13.1 pounds

Manufacturer

Apple Computer (Direct)

ASIN

B0713V8QWG

Item model number

MQGG2LL/A

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

November 1, 2018

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Lloyd

Very fast for music production

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2019

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This is used in my digital recording studio. Lots of external things plugged into it. All USB plugs are used and a powered hub with about 6 other devices. Several MIDI Keyboards via USB, Thunderbolt ports are in use. USB mixer/interface, Apollo Twin interface, Presonus Faderport 16 interface all running into Studio One 4 Pro. Nothing has slowed it down yet.

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Nick

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2019

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I've been a huge fan of Apple for most of my life. When my old Mac Pro (the giant steel tower that could take over the world on any given day) started wearing out after ten years of heavy use, I looked into the new Mac Pros. Bought this one for $3,500, assuming it would do everything the old system did. I was very wrong. To this day (five years later) it still sputters, crashes, freezes, and generally fails to run all the programs I was used to running (Final Cut Express, Microsoft Office, etc.). I definitely get the feeling that Apple is moving away from computing, which is unfortunate. They were forerunners for a long time.

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hanrenwei

Wonderful!

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2019

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Great macpro, that make my works better than ever.
my spec 3.0GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD

16 people found this helpful

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CHG

It worked as advertised

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2019

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Old reliable MacPro product that has aged, but performs well for video processing.

4 people found this helpful

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Amazon Customer

Awesome

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2014

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Blazingly fast, rock-solid stable (not surprising for a Mac), and so incredibly quiet. Yes, it's pricey but my last Mac Pro lasted 6 years and I sold it for about half what I paid for it.

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Stephen Green

"My god, it's full of stars!"

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2014

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If you don't recognize the headline, it's from 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the space monolith "opens up" in front of astronaut David Bowman and the stargate is revealed. It's also what I said when I unboxed my new Mac Pro. The extruded, polished, and anodized aluminum cover is one of the most gorgeous things I've ever owned. It's certainly the best looking bit of computer equipment you're likely to ever see. I'm still trying to figure out how something so perfectly mirrored can also be almost as perfectly fingerprint-proof, but it is. As the father of two small boys who can't resist touching everything, I'm grateful.

My two most-demanding applications are Aperture and Handbrake, and this stock six-core Mac Pro is plenty fast for both. Editing and managing my photos in Aperture simply *is*. I'm never stuck waiting for a process to finish; I make the adjustment and the photo is adjusted. Period. Handbrake would rip my videos faster if I threw a couple more CPU cores at it, but not for a price that makes any sense.

The stock Solid State Drive might just be the fastest non-RAID getup in the industry, but 256GB isn't a whole lot of storage. I'd recommend any of LaCie's fine external Thunderbolt drives. I have one of their d2 models for my Time Machine backups and a 2Big RAID drive for my photo libraries. Every time I open one of those massive library files, I hear Han Solo telling Ben Kenobi, "She's fast enough for you, old man."

If you're used to Big Box Workstations, this tiny little cylinder may take some getting used to, especially since all your storage expansion and whatnot happens outside the box, so to speak. But I find I'd rather have that gorgeous jet engine-looking thing on top of my desktop, than some big metal or plastic box underneath my desk. It's gorgeous, but never distracting.

It's so silent, only the glow of your monitor will let you know when it's on. I'm sure the fan must be spinning in there somewhere, or Handbrake would have fried the CPU by now -- but you couldn't get me to swear to that.

Everyone will want to touch it. Let them.

What I like best about it though isn't the speed or the looks -- it's that it's a Mac, and the best Mac that Apple has ever built. Yes, it's expensive, but with exactly ONE moving part (the fan does move, or so I'm told), it ought to last forever. And the resale value will hold up nicely, too.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to staring into my new Mac Pro, waiting for the Star Child to emerge.

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Ahmed shakyb

Hopeless

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2020

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I could not use much time . After 3 months no power and I send apple certified service center and they said cannot repaired. Big loss for me.

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Joel Campbell

I like it but ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2014

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I was able to find one of these for $3100 sold used in an unopened factory box and even though I wanted something I could fill with hard drives, PCI cards, etc I gave this thing a try. I have the 12-core 2012 Mac pro at work and for most things this is quite a bit faster than that. No complaints there. However, finding internal storage upgrades, interfacing it with my dvd-d dual link monitor, transferring my hard drives etc has proved to be quite an expensive odyssey. I like the the speed, but I would have preferred a design closer to the previous tower much better and would have made it possible to transfer my old hardware with a minimum of expense. This may have saved apple a few bucks in construction costs, but it costs their customers thousands of dollars, not to mention endless hours trying to solve problems that really shouldn't be a problem. I thought I was done getting expensive external add-ons when they introduced the Mac II back in the 1980s, but unfortunately it seems they have gone back to their impractical roots.

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