Charitable donations to the fund Apple (Product) RED exceeded $ 70 million. It is reported portal MacRumors citing recent record on behalf of the Fund in the microblogging service Twitter.

Fund (RED) is actively engaged in the fight against AIDS and other dangerous diseases. For a long time Apple has given him financial support – in July last year, the amount of its donations reached $ 65 million. Since that time the company moved fund another five million dollars.

Its collaboration with (RED) in Cupertino started since its inception in 2006. Then was presented the first product in this project – red iPod nano.

After that, Apple announced several devices and accessories with the prefix (RED): red iPod Touch and Shuffle , Smart Cover for iPad, bumpers and cases for iPhone. Part of the proceeds of the sale of the corporation donates to charity.

Last year, Johnny Ive with his friend the designer Marc Newson created several new products for the charity auction Sotheby, among which were gold and red headphones EarPods Mac Pro. Their sales have brought (RED) has $ 13 million .

It would seem natural for the charitable activities of large companies, but Apple is an absolute record for the number of donated funds. Of course, it helps her to get the necessary “tick” and the approval of the public, but I want to believe that the corporation primarily engaged in this well-intentioned.

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As a rule, all concepts of devices from Apple – are products that we are likely to see in the future, no matter what version. This concept – an exception, yield such a product does not portend. This flight of fancy Apple lover Kurt measurements, Jr., in which he wanted to show the computer symbiosis Mac Pro desktop and iMac.

Copyright depicted product called iPro. This desktop size 800 x 600 x 150 mm. The thickness of the upper part of a non-existent device of 8 mm and the base diameter – 120 mm. This computer is equipped with 35-inch OLED display with a resolution of 3382 x 1964, ventilation and audio speakers. Of the interfaces in a fictional computer 4 port Thunderbolt ports and 8 USB 3.0. The display can be tilted 20 degrees on itself, or from himself, for maximum comfort.

According to Kurt, they invented the computer is designed for professionals for whom there is no excess capacity. In this iPro retains the balance between performance and sophisticated design. Such aesthetics will not be achieved by connecting to the most beautiful Mac Pro is all you need for the job. There is no reason to believe that Apple are thinking of a similar computer, so if you like it, you can only enjoy the pictures.

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December 19, Apple began selling Mac Pro workstation , presented at the June conference WWDC. Mac Pro has become the most productive and the most expensive model in the line of computers Apple. MacDigger foreign colleagues studied opinions about the new product.

CNET

“The new Mac Pro – is a professional working tool, dressed in an attractive shell. Computer consumer can call a stretch. However, the base price of Mac Pro – no more than another computer to Windows with the same configuration. Radically new design and unmatched performance make Mac Pro the best solution for those who need the most productive and the most stylish product. “

The Verge

“Housing Mac Pro has a surprisingly reflective – looking reflection can learn a passing man. Yet it is easy to collect fingerprints. Nevertheless, the computer is really beautiful, compact and looks great next to the 4K-monitor Sharp, we are connected to it. Looks luxurious as the housing, and without it. Aluminum sheath activated computer to dissipate heat, so without even Mac Pro does not turn on. “

Engadget

“From an aesthetic point of view anodized aluminum Mac Pro reflects more than any other company’s product. It also means that it collects more than other prints. (This is not a big problem if you are planning as we keep it in the far corner of the table). In fact, it is not as black as the online Apple, more color “gray space”. The case is very easy to remove for those rare occasions when you need to upgrade the RAM, storage or graphics. “

MacWorld

“The upper part of the Mac Pro serves as a vent for cooling the turbine system (amazing quiet) and carrying handles. Computer weighs only about 5 pounds, so it can easily be transferred if necessary. Back – a lot of ports and connectors that are easy to light when the motion sensor work computer. Here you will find a 6-port Thunderbolt, four-port USB 3.0, two independent Gigabit Ethernet-connector, HDMI and audio jacks. “

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Release new professional workstation Mac Pro provoked the appearance of several software and hardware updates Apple. Among them Thunderbolt interface cables in black.

Corporate cord to connect to high-speed protocol Thunderbolt company introduced back in 2011. Then he began selling them. Until that day, in the range of Apple were only white models. Now, after the start of sales of Mac Pro c futuristic body glossy black, the company released a black cables Thunderbolt. The range of two models – 0.5 m and 2 m worth 1399 rubles and 1799 respectively.

Some resent pricing against Apple accessories – 1800 rubles per-foot cord. It is worth recalling, however, that Thunderbolt-cable – this is not a simple piece of copper wire with connectors, what are the cables eSATA or USB. “Autopsy” connectors found that inside there are full-fledged processors running firmware.

At each end of Apple Thunderbolt chip implanted Gennum, the total number of chips – 12. One of the main reasons for the presence of each connector inside the whole scheme is to improve the quality of data transmission over copper cables. All this tricky electronics provide data rates up to 20 Gbit / s over a rather thin conductors. Maybe for some people this will serve as a justification for the conclusion of their high cost.

Sales of new Mac Pro started on Thursday. The Russian online store, you can choose the configuration of the computer and leave the order, but the device will be delivered no earlier than February.

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On Thursday , the market entered a new Mac Pro. It is ten times faster than a personal computer and a much smaller predecessor. Price innovative devices to the Apple Store starting $ 2999.

Radically updated Mac Pro workstations, Apple introduced in June. However, deliveries of new products launched just yesterday, because the processors Xeon E5-generation Ivy Bridge, Intel began shipping only at the beginning of autumn. But today ordered an interesting novelty Apple can even Russia. By February, only 125,000 rubles you deliver black aluminum cylinder. Cylinder height of 25 cm cooling system thought so that the filling is not overheated, and the system does not come off the table and hung in the air on a powerful exhaust.

The first who managed to film the process of unpacking the latest Mac Pro, were journalists PCMag. Photos of this fascinating process attached.

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During the recently held auction Sotheby’s sold for a record $ 977 thousand was sold Mac Pro in a red color options.

It should be noted that the special red version of the new Mac Pro, which should go on sale until next month, was created as senior vice president of Apple’s design and Jonathan Ayvom famous industrial designer Marc Newson, in cooperation with the charitable foundation RED, based vocalist famous band U2 Bono. The Foundation raises funds to fight diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Expected prior to the auction that the red Mac Pro will be sold no more than $ 60 thousand, which is 15 times more than expected retail price of conventional Mac Pro in the United States.

In addition, the auction were also sold other products created by designers. In particular, the camera Leica M, which was reported in early October , was sold for $ 1.8 million, gold headphones Apple EarPods for $ 461 thousand and aluminum table for $ 1.7 million

It is worth noting, for the last seven years, Apple has brought the fund RED $ 68 million more

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Apple announced a new generation of productive workstation Mac Pro in June at the conference WWDC. The company did not name the exact release dates of computers on the market, but according to MacRumors this will happen this fall. Harbinger of launching new Mac Pro with a cylindrical design can serve as the beginning of a promotional campaign, which launched Apple in the United States.

As reported by MacRumors, for the first time in American cinemas have started to show a new generation Mac Pro. Start the promotional campaign has also been associated with access to the worldwide distribution of the new film about the founder of Apple «Steve Jobs: The Empire of temptation.” Previously, Apple announced that sales of the updated machines will begin later this year, the assembly of the devices will go to the United States.

The computer is made in a cylindrical glossy black casing around a quarter of a meter in height and diameter of 20 cm boards bearing the CPU, system logic, GPU and memory, are located around the Thermal Core – high-performance cooling system that uses a single fan.

The heart of the new Mac Pro – 12-core Xeon processors, plus two next-generation high-end graphics processor AMD FirePro, supporting a display resolution of 4K (Ultra HD). In a flash memory-based PCIe, as well as ultra-fast memory ECC. The machine runs up to 2.5 times faster than its predecessors and has a capacity of up to 7 teraflops computing.

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