{"id":2519,"date":"2008-01-15T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-15T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T07:35:00","slug":"local-apple-mac-pro-pricing-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/2519-local-apple-mac-pro-pricing-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Local Apple Mac Pro pricing announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple recently announced a brand new Mac Pro &ndash;with eight processor cores and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of its predecessor. <\/p>\n<p>The new Mac Pro combines two of Intel&rsquo;s new 45 nanometer Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2 GHz, new graphics and up to 4TB of internal storage.<\/p>\n<p>Many local Apple enthusiasts were happy with the news that Mac Pro would be faster, but speculated that the price may be in the region of R 36 000 &ndash; around double the price in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>This speculation was however based on the advertised price of an end of line model in Apple&rsquo;s local online store, and the actual price for the new machine is significantly less.<\/p>\n<p>Apple announced that the new Mac Pro will retail at R26 000 including VAT. <\/p>\n<p>This price is in line with the UK price of R 23 015.69 which should serve as the benchmark for local prices as South Africa falls under this &lsquo;Apple Region&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=101025\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core Group has announced the local price for the Mac Pro \u00e2\u20ac\u201c significantly less than initial speculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}