Mac Pro Is Very Upgradeable

Mac Pro CPU

Apple has been delivering new Mac Pros to giddy buyers for several days now. Among the lucky few are the guys at Other World Computing, who quite naturally took it apart.

New Mac Pro:

And, yes, OWC discovered that the Xeon E5 sits on a standard Intel LGA 2011 socket. As things stand, you can pay Apple to upgrade:

3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 with 12MB of L3 cache: +$500
3.0GHz 8-core Intel Xeon E5 with 25MB of L3 cache: +$2000
2.7GHz 12-core Intel Xeon E5 with 30MB of L3 cache: +$3500

And, sometime down the road, Intel LGA 2011 socket compatible Xeon E5 processors will be available at retail and/or on the gray market. No, they won’t be cheap, but Apple has left open the possibility of upgrading the new Mac Pro’s processor, which is a good thing™.

Apple has said RAM — OWC sells 32GB and 64GB for $449 and $895, respectively — is a user upgradeable feature.

Now, the big question is whether or not Apple will deliver upgrades, or allow third-parties, that are compatible with the new Mac Pro’s GPU and SSD sockets.

So, following months of angst and (pre-emptive?) anger, it turns out the Apple’s new Mac Pro is (technically) very upgradeable. How that turns in practical terms remains to be seen.

At the very, very least, though, users will be able to upgrade the new Mac Pro’s RAM and processors…

Via : Tapscape