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Mac Pro Xeon/2.66GHz (12 core)

Macworld Rating

4.0 out of 5 Mice, Oct 15, 2010

Pros

  • Highly expandable
  • Up to 24 virtual processing cores available to applications that can use them

Cons

  • Many applications perform better with fewer-but-faster processors

$4999

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