3.7 GHz 4-core Xeon E5, 12/256 SSD, $2,799 shipped, B&H, MacMall (Low End Mac earns more when you buy from MacMall).Your best value depends on whether you need, extra RAM, bigger hard drives, SSDs, etc.
We try to factor in shipping costs (based on ground shipping to Low End Mac headquarters in Michigan) in choosing the best values.
#Refurbished from mac of all trades pro
Every Mac Pro shipped from Apple with a 16x dual-layer SuperDrive. Used Macs typically include a 90 day warranty. We try distinguish various models by including the year if the vendor notes it.
Note that the 20 Mac Pro are not compatible with OpenCL, and the 2008 is only compatible with a video card that supports OpenCL, such as the GeForce GT 120, which retails for $149 – it is designed to work with the 2009 Mac Pro and has been reported to work with the 2008 model as well.Īll Mac Pro models prior to 2013 support OS X 10.7 Lion, but only the 2008 and newer models officially support OS X 10.9 Mavericks and 10.10 Yosemite, although there is a hack for the earlier Mac Pros.
#Refurbished from mac of all trades mac os x
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard are supported on all Intel-based Macs released prior to 2010. (single CPU models only supports 4 memory modules.) ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics is standard.įor our thoughts on the 2010/2012 Mac Pro’s value, see The 2010 Mac Pro Value Equation. 2013 Mac Pro results are in bold, and non-Mac Pro results are in italic for comparison:īecause of the way Nehalem and Westmere manage memory, you’ll achieve the best performance with 3 or 6 RAM modules, although there doesn’t appear to be a big performance hit when using 4 or 8 modules, which provides more system memory. Here are the numbers in 64-bit multi-core mode, which is the way you’ll be using your Mac Pro with OS X 10.7 and later. Primate Labs has posted Geekbench 3 results for all the Mac Pro models since 2006.