On Wednesday morning, Apple was granted FCC approval for the forthcoming Mac Pro, with historical precedent suggesting strongly that preorders for the unit will start very soon.
The report doesn’t have anything more than Apple has shared about the Mac Pro at first glance other than the A1991 identifier. US Federal Communications Commission approval is required before a piece of consumer electronics goes on sale.
As expected, Apple has requested that the commission withhold block diagrams, schematics, and other procedures “indefinitely.”
Typically, the FCC publishes Apple’s applications the day of release. The Mac Pro was announced in July, similar to how the iMac Pro debuted before shipping. When the FCC documentation was released for the iMac Pro, pre-orders began less than two days later.
Apple debuted the Mac Pro on June 3. In the new Mac Pro, Apple is using a new Intel Xeon processor with up to 28 cores and 64 PCI Express lanes. The Mac Pro uses six memory channels, with 2933 MHz ECC RAM, in 12 slots, with up to 1.5 TB of system memory.
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