The base configuration, as bundled into boxes in stores, and selling for $2800, consists of:
- Two quad-core 2.8GHz Intel Xeon chips (1600MHz, 64-bit dual independent FSBs)
- 2GB of RAM (two 1G DDR2 ECC FB-DIMMs, leaving 6 empty sockets)
- A 320GB 7200 RPM SATA-2 hard drive.
- ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256M video (with two dual-link DVI ports)
- A 16x "SuperDrive" (Dual-layer DVD+/-RW)
- USB keyboard and mouse (including a 2-port USB 2.0 hub in the keyboard)
- Two GigE network ports
- Bluetooth 2.0 EDR (up to 3Mb/s)
- 4 FireWire ports (2 at 400Mbps, 2 at 800Mbps)
- 5 USB 2.0 ports
- Audio in/out (optical, line-level, and mic/headphone)
- Mac OS X 10.5
- Apple's iLife application suite
Various build-to-order options (available from Apple's web-store) include:
- Processor choices:
- Downgrade to one quad-core Xeon (instead of two) at 2.8GHz for $500 less
- Upgrade to 3.0GHz for $800 more
- Upgrade to 3.2GHz for $1600 more
- More memory. Up to 32GB. Note that it's pretty expensive. I'm not sure how much of this is Apple's (frequently expensive) fault, and how much is because FB-DIMMs are simply expensive parts.
- A hardware RAID interface, including a battery backed-up cache.
- Hard drive options - 4 bays with up to 1TB in each bay.
- Video options:
- Up to 4 Radeon 2600XT cards - one in each PCI Express slot
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT with 512M (with two dual-link DVI ports)
- NVIDIA Quadro FV 5600 with 1.5GB (with two dual-link DVI ports and a stereo 3D port)
- Displays (20", 23" or 30"). You can, of course, use any DVI- or VGA-based display, not just Apple's.
- A second SuperDrive
- 802.11 pre-n Wi-Fi interface
- Dual- or quad-channel FibreChannel interface (for attaching an external RAID chassis)
- Modem
- Bluetooth keyboard/mouse instead of the USB ones
- AppleCare (extends warrantee to 3 years) for $250
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