Apple Mac Pro "Eight Core" 3.2 2008 Specs

Screen Size and Resolution

The Mac Pro has a primary display support for up to 8 displays and a resolution support of 2560 x 1600.  It also has a 2^nd display support of 1920 x 1200.

Inclusive Features

The Mac Pro includes the following features and ports:

• Standard AirPort Extreme 802.11a/b/g/n (Optional)
• Bluetooth 2.0+EDR(Optional)
• 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• Two FireWire “400” ports
• Two FireWire “800” ports
• Five USB 2.0 ports
• 8X DL “Super Drive”
• One dual link  DVI port and one single link DVI port.

Processor & Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

The Mac Pro has Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B2117)  pre-installed. This is powered by two 3.2 GHz Quad Core 45-nm Intel Xeon X5482 (Harpertown/Penryn) processors with 12 MB of level 2 cache per processor (each pair of cores shares 6 MB), a 128-bit SSE4 SIMD vector engine, and 1.6 GHz “64-bit dual independent frontside buses”. The graphics processor is an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256 MB of GDDR3 memory and two dual-link DVI ports.

Memory & Architecture

The device has 2 GB of 800 MHz DDR2 EEC “fully-buffered” FB-DIMM memory.  The RAM has a heat sink design that is a bit different from generic FB-DIMMs. This is centered around a 64-bit architecture.

Available Upgrades

Although the Mac Pro comes with 2 GB of RAM, it can be upgraded to 64 GB of RAM.  The operating system of the Mac Pro can also be upgraded from its pre-installed Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B2117) up to MacOS X 10.11.x. This Mac Pro is also able to host Windows XP SP2 (32-Bit) and more recently Windows 7 (64-Bit).  This Mac Pro has the dimensions of 511 mm × 206 mm × 475 mm and weighs 42.4 lbs (19.2 kg).