

This subsequently lowers the 30dBA acoustic level of the 2012 Mac Pro to just 12dBA for the 2013 Mac Pro. "It works by conducting heat away from the CPU and GPUs and distributing that heat uniformly across the core."Īpple also engineered a single, larger fan that pulls air upward through a bottom intake, allowing air to pass vertically through the center of the device, absorbing heat and carrying it out the top. "Rather than using multiple heat sinks and fans to cool the processor and graphics cards, we built everything around a single piece of extruded aluminum designed to maximize airflow as well as thermal capacity," Apple said. Look and feel aside, one of the unique aspects to the 2013 Mac Pro is its unified thermal core and cooling system. The thermal core will come in handy when one processor isn’t working as hard as the others are, because the extra thermal capacity will distribute equally among all of them. For comparison, the 2012 Mac Pro is a 20.1-inch-tall rectangle box. The entire enclosure is cylindrical, sleek, lighter and smaller at just 9.9 inches tall with a diameter of 6.6 inches. The desktop has adopted a new design - which many have compared to a Braun coffee maker. The "cheese grater" look of the old Mac Pro, which debuted in 2003 with the Power Mac G5, is gone forever. Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Nintendo Switchīut how does it set the bar higher? We've quickly broken it down, so you can see the exact differences between the 2013 Mac Pro and 2012 Mac Pro.Pocket-Lint Recommendations: Xbox Console.Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Google Nest.Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Amazon Echo Devices.

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