The graphics cards in the Mac Pro can be connected with up to three display ports or six if the optional second graphics card is installed. Professional-grade video editing, animation and 3D modeling are all possible with the Mac Pro. In fact, the graphics processing abilities of the Mac Pro remain its strongest feature, as before. You can add up to four hard drives and two optical drives to the Mac Pro, and multiple professional-grade graphics cards for professional multimedia editing purposes. The Mac Pro remains as easy to upgrade and customize as it always has been, and this is one of its greatest strengths. The Mac Pro is Apple’s only desktop model with expansion slots, and like the previous models, it’s easy to upgrade the Mac Pro – just sliding out the side panel will give you access to all the internal components.

Unlike the MacBook models, there is unfortunately no USB 3.0 support and no Thunderbolt cable port. The Mac Pro comes standard with five USB 2.0 and four FireWire ports. There is also a special server model available for $2,999 with the 3.2ghz processor, OSX Lion Server, 8GB of memory and double the hard drive storage space of the other models. Users who want the most power possible can pay $3,799 for an upgrade to two 2.4ghz processors and 12GB of memory. The basic model is a quad-core, 3.02ghz processor with a 1TB hard drive, 6GB of memory and an 18x SuperDrive for $2,449. With that said, the Mac Pro’s specs are still impressive: 64GB of memory, 1TB hard drive, and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card with 1GB of GDDR5 memory, which can be upgraded to a Radeon 5870, ideal for more graphically demanding applications. The CPU has been upgraded from 2.93ghz to 3.02ghz, which is not a massive overhaul considering that most of the other specs are unchanged. Unfortunately, the update hasn’t turned out to be all that grand. For two years, consumers have waited for an update to the Mac Pro, Apple’s flagship desktop model, and now the wait is finally over.

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