Between 5 and 11 March, that is, this week, Intel announced a family of chips for servers and workstations, Xeon E5, built on the architecture Sandy Bridge E (socket 2011), Reported the British newspaper The Inquirer. Probably, in conjunction with the announcement of Intel to update desktop productive Mac Pro will announce Apple.
Desktops Mac Pro-based operating system Mac OS X are positioned as solutions for professional users, experts in the field of video, graphics and design. These machines have undergone recent major upgrade in July 2010. The publication believe that Apple will introduce new models of computers at the launch of third generation iPad tablet .
By the way, colleagues from The Inquirer managed to visit the Department of Boston, whose representatives have confirmed that the chip Xeon E5 has reached the dealer network a few weeks ago. Another large manufacturer, American Dell, have already introduced a line of workstations based on the latest "stones» Intel.
Most likely, the dual-processor Mac Pro stations will be used 8 - and 6-core chips E5-2600, whereas the single-processor workstations will go to 4 - and 6-core processors E5-1600. In the current Mac Pro uses 8 - and 4-core chips on the architecture of Nehalem, which debuted on the market in 2008.
In addition, in the office of Boston reporters spotted in the womb of a dual-processor workstation, Apple professional graphics NVIDIA Quadro, which apparently takes the place of production decisions of AMD.
Despite such a significant upgrade, the future of Mac Pro remains obscure. It is reported that the managers questioned Apple workstations in the future, because their sales are steadily declining in recent years. Two years ago, due to low demand took the decision to stop selling servers Xserve .
