{"id":95021,"date":"2014-01-17T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T10:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=95021"},"modified":"2014-01-17T13:14:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T11:14:39","slug":"new-mac-pro-sa-pricing-launch-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/95021-new-mac-pro-sa-pricing-launch-window.html","title":{"rendered":"New Mac Pro SA pricing, launch window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s new Mac Pro desktop workstation PC has been confirmed for South Africa, with local pricing on the quad core model expected to start at R38,999.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Core Group, official distributor of Apple products in South Africa, has told MyBroadband that they can&#8217;t say exactly when the Mac Pro will launch in South Africa yet, but are hoping to have it in market during the first quarter of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Mac Pro was first unveiled at Apple\u2019s developer conference during June 2013, with Apple later announcing it would launch before the end of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>It went on sale overseas on 19 December 2013 in two customisable variants.<\/p>\n<p>The quad-core model has the following specifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 processor;<\/li>\n<li>12GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC memory;<\/li>\n<li>Dual AMD FirePro D300 with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM each;<\/li>\n<li>256GB PCIe-based flash storage; and<\/li>\n<li>RRP: R38,999 (Core), $2,999 (Apple, excludes sales tax).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 6-core model has the following specifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 processor;<\/li>\n<li>16GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC memory;<\/li>\n<li>Dual AMD FirePro D500 with 3GB GDDR5 VRAM each;<\/li>\n<li>256GB PCIe-based flash storage; and<\/li>\n<li>RRP: R50,999 (Core), $3,999 (Apple, excludes sales tax).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Apple news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/94895-apple-to-refund-r355-million-in-disputed-app-purchases.html\"><strong>Apple to refund R355 million in disputed app purchases<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/93683-apple-vs-android-vs-blackberry-vs-windows.html\"><strong>Apple vs Android vs BlackBerry vs Windows<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/91991-apple-iphone-5s-5c-prices-in-sa-compared.html\"><strong>Apple iPhone 5s, 5c prices in SA compared<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/93973-new-mac-pro-launch-date-prices-announced.html\"><strong>New Mac Pro launch date, prices announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/89749-new-mac-pro-details-revealed.html\">New Mac Pro details revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A launch window and recommended retail price for the new Mac Pro has emerged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":89759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[605,1579,35,2728],"class_list":["post-95021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-apple","tag-core-group","tag-headline","tag-mac-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95021"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}