Amaya Toman In today's part of our series dedicated to the history of Apple products, we will go back to 2006. That was the summer when the Cupertino company presented the first generation of its Mac Pro.
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Apple presented its new Mac Pro at WWDC in early August 2006. As the name suggested, it was a very powerful machine, designed especially for the needs of professionals. The first generation Mac Pro also earned the nickname "tower" for its design. The first generation Mac Pro was available with either one or two Intel Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" series CPUs with 64-bit architecture. "Apple successfully completed the transition to using Intel processors in just seven months - 210 days to be specific," said Steve Jobs at the time in connection with the introduction of the new Mac Pro.
The first-generation Mac Pro was also equipped with 667 MHz DDR2, and thanks to really wide configuration and customization options, it could be set up at the time of purchase to meet the very specific requirements of the future owner. Among other things, the Mac Pro also offered support for simultaneous reading and writing to CDs and DVDs, and was also equipped with a FireWire 800, FireWire 400 or perhaps a pair of USB 2.0 ports. Among the equipment of this novelty were also dual ports for Gigabit Ethernet, users could also order a variant with support for AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0.
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NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics were also part of the standard hardware equipment of every first-generation Mac Pro variant. At the time of release, the Mac Pro was running Mac OS X 10.4.7. The first generation Mac Pro was met with mostly positive reviews. Technology servers positively evaluated its variability and versatility, but also its design. Apple discontinued the sale of the first generation Mac Pro in the European market in March 2013, the last chance for users to order it was on February 18, 2013. The computer then disappeared from the online Apple Store in October 2013 after Apple introduced its second generation.
