Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown

Step 1 — Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown

• The new Mac Pro has been released, and we've managed to get our hands on the entry-level model, "inexpensively" priced at $2,999.
• Tech Specs:

  • Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 with 10 MB L3 cache and Turbo Boost up to 3.9 GHz
  • 12 GB (three 4 GB modules) of 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC memory
  • Dual AMD FirePro D300 graphics processors with 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM each
  • 256 GB PCIe-based flash storage
  • 802.11ac Wi-Fi wireless networking and Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology

Step 2

• Contrary to popular belief, the new Mac Pro is closer in design to an aluminum beverage can than a trash can. (Not that there's anything wrong with trash cans—some of our favorite astromech droids areshaped like trash cans.)
• The back side (if a cylinder can have a back side) contains the power button and electrical inlet, as well as a tidy array of ports:

  • 3.5 mm speaker and headphone jacks
  • Four USB 3.0 ports
  • Six Thunderbolt 2 ports
  • Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports
  • HDMI 1.4 out
• Looks like neither trash nor fixer can get in through the top of this bin. Time to investigate that enticing lock switch...

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