Apple might be a closed company, which hates unwanted publicity. And the company might be starting to have a tough time now with its marketshare, stocks and such, but still, there’s something the company has been doing. Apple has donated 11 of 12-core Mac Pros to the Cal Poly Computer Science lab recently, since they were in need of it.
That’s about $100,000 worth of hardware the company has donated to the lab to satisfy their need. The Mac Pros, which Apple has donated to the Cal Poly CS lab has got a 64GB RAM in them sporting a 12-core processor, which is like the dream machine that anyone would want to have, for whatever purpose it is. On digging around Cal Poly lab’s works, they have been doing a lot of research and development with some of the top universities and some users also say that the Ph.D grads get to do whatever they need in this lab.
May be, these machines will be used to perform processor intensive tasks like calculating the complex matrix ever on a computer, or may be trying to do a lot of graphic rendering with them. But in the Reddit thread, the user says that they’re actually going to be using this for coding some stuff. At the time of writing this post, I’m on a 4GB RAM MacBook Pro, and even my office has a 16GB RAM Mac Pro running smooth. And I thought it was the fastest machine I’ve ever used.
Interesting move by Apple huh? And may be, Mac Pro would get a huge update during this year’s WWDC 2013, who’s tickets got sold in 2 minutes.