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Amid much back-and-forth this week on the future of Apple's Mac Pro, iMac, and Mac Mini desktops, it seems worth recapping what we know for sure, as well as what we don't.
Fact: Apple updated the Mac Pro on Monday, albeit with a minor CPU tweak.
Shortly after the end of Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference keynote speech, Apple added its new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops to its online store. Above each laptop's picture, you will still find a little "new" icon, indicating the updated systems. Surprisingly, the Mac Pro also had a "new" icon above it as well, despite no mention of a new model from Apple during the keynote.
What was so "new" about Apple's workstation? Simple. In the $2,499 Mac Pro, Apple updated the 2.8GHz Intel Xeon W3530 chip with the 3.2GHz Xeon W3565, a chip with the same "Bloomfield" CPU technology as the original. Anticipated updates like Ivy Bridge, USB 3.0, and Thunderbolt all went unaccounted for. Instead, Apple gave its Mac Pros just a minor CPU speed bump.
The "new" tag has since come down from the Mac Pro Apple store listing.
Fact: Apple has confirmed that a full Mac Pro update/redesign is due in 2013. On Monday, June 11, The New York Times' David Pogue ... [Read more]
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