Despite the rumors about Apple refusing the development of the line workstation Mac Pro, the next test in the operating system OS X 10.7.3 had discovered signs of a quick update on these machines.
Employees found in the publication Netkas beta 10.7.3 references to the driver ATI Radeon X3000 graphics chip for Tahiti - the code name for this new upscale graphics hides a series of AMD Southern Islands, which will use the new 28 nm AMD chips, liquid-cooled, adapted increase in performance for general computing tasks. Its sale under the brand name Radeon HD 7000 is scheduled for January 2012.
It is clear that support for Radeon HD 7000 operating system 10.7.3 can be interpreted as the first hint of the forthcoming update the line Mac Pro. Apple already uses AMD video cards in an iMac and Mac mini, and driver support for Tahiti in the new Mac-assembly is likely to anticipate the transition from Apple NVIDIA graphics and the AMD in the segment of powerful workstations, together with a choice of Intel Xeon X5 as the main processor for "press shot" early 2012.
Mac Pro workstations running Mac OS X is positioned as solutions for professional users, specialists in video, graphics and design. These computers have undergone the last major update in July last year.
Lack of new products was usually associated with the planned abandonment of the Apple Xeon chips due to the unstable release of these components. In 2011, Intel has focused on the production server cost models Xeon E3 and expensive versions of the Xeon E7. Apparently, the update of powerful desktop Mac Pro in Cupertino
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