Mac Pro Reviews and Video
As the Mac Pro starts arriving in the hands of users, more reviews are starting to emerge about the latest Apple tower.
Mac Pro Review - Macintouch
Mac Pro Review - Arstechnica
Video of Mac Pro - Macworld
Mac Pro Benchmarks - Macworld
From the Benchmarks article:
The standard configuration of the Mac Pro outperforms its PowerPC-based G5 predecessors by a wide margin, helping to justify Apples 2005 decision to switch to processors from Intel. Whats more, the system powered by two dual-core 2.66GHz Xeon chips narrowly missed becoming the first machine to ever record a Speedmark score of over 300.
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