Product Description
Professionals need superior tools to produce designs, music, high-definition video or the next scientific breakthrough. The new Power Mac G5 line extends as far as you require. Two 64-bit G5 processors reaching top speeds of 2.7GHz, room for up to 8GB of main memory, pro performance graphics cards and ultrahigh-bandwidth system architecture will give you more results than systems costing twice as much.
Supersonic Speed
This Power Mac G5 2.7GHz model packs so much power into tight quarters that Apple designed a liquid cooling system for it, resulting in a cool tower that runs Photoshop nearly two times faster than a Pentium 4-based system. In fact, for most creative endeavors, the Power Mac G5 simply has no competition in its class.
A 64-bit OS for Your 64-bit Machine
Every Power Mac G5 comes with Tiger, the latest release of Mac OS X. Search your entire Power Mac in a single click with Spotlight, access up-to-the-second information with Dashboard and run all of your software faster. With its 64-bit features, Tiger also provides access to as much physical memory as you can install in your PowerMac G5. Even 32-bit applications benefit from the system's ability to access large amounts of RAM: The system can manipulate data in multiple applications entirely in RAM for maximum performance.
Double-layer Drive
The 16x SuperDrive built into every dual-processor Power Mac G5 now supports double-layer (DVD+R DL) discs. While single-layer DVD-R discs hold up to 4.7GB of data, double-layer discs have two layers of data, allowing the SuperDrive laser to read and write on either layer, almost doubling the storage to 8.5GB. Using iDVD - included on every Power Mac G5 - or DVD Studio Pro, you can author discs with over three hours of MPEG-2 video on one DVD+R DL disc. If you work with high-definition video, use the SuperDrive to burn double-layer discs with more room for high-bit-rate H.264 video.
High-performance Graphics
The Power Mac G5 comes with a graphics card installed in an AGP 8X Pro slot for a maximum bandwidth of 2.1GB per second. That's a good thing, because the Power Mac G5 uses its graphics card to accelerate the entire system. Powerful graphics give Quartz Extreme the power to display Mac OS X features - such as drop shadows and ripple effects - seamlessly. Your graphics card does the heavy lifting so the G5 processor can crunch numbers at the same time. This Power Mac's configuration features the ATI Radeon 9650 graphics cards, which provide excellent all-around performance. The 9650 supports a 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display right out of the box.
Exquisitely Advanced Technology
With 64-bit power and high-bandwidth architecture, this groundbreaking system alleviates the limitations and bottlenecks of the traditional PC - opening up a wealth of possibilities for 2D and 3D designers, video and audio producers, scientists, researchers and game developers and players. A dual-independent frontside bus architecture, an advanced system controller and high-speed, high-capacity memory combine to make the Power Mac G5 one of the fastest PCs ever built.
Connect Wisely
The Power Mac G5 product line all features a 16x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) as standard equipment. And of course they come with one FireWire 800 port, two FireWire 400 ports, three PCI-X or PCI expansion slots, three USB 2.0 ports, analog audio in, analog audio out, optical S/PDIF in, optical S/PDIF out, front headphone and speaker jack and built-in Gigabit Ethernet - all as standard equipment. All are AirPort Extreme-ready.
Does It Faster
The PowerPC G5 processor dramatically accelerates performance in real world applications. When compared head-to-head against PCs in a series of Photoshop tests, the dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 systems ran the 45 filters 98% faster than the 3.6GHz Pentium 4-based system, and 72%, faster than the dual 3.6GHz Xeon-based system.(2)
Quiet Operation
The Power Mac G5's enclosure houses four discrete thermal zones to compartmentalize the primary heat-producing components. Fans in the zones spin at very low speeds, resulting in a system two times quieter than the Power Mac G4.
Bandwidth to Burn
The ultrahigh-bandwidth system architecture of the Power Mac G5 features dual-independent frontside busses running at up to 1.35GHz - one on each processor - for maximum throughput from the system to the G5 processors. And a point-to-point system controller lets data move directly between subsystems, without affecting processor function.
PCI-X Expansion
The dual 2.7GHZ Power Mac G5 comes with three PCI-X slots, giving you the benefit of fast PCI technology. The PCI-X protocol supports high-performance PCI devices, increasing speeds from 33MHz to 133MHz and throughput from 266 Mbps to 2 GBps. So you can customize your Power Mac G5 to your creative use, with video capture cards, pro audio tools, fibre channel networking and high-speed disk drives.
Plugged In
It's easy to plug printers, scanners and other devices into the Power Mac G5. In addition to sporting a full complement of ports on the back, the front panel of the Power Mac G5 offers FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 ports, as well as a headphone jack. Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire, USB 2.0 and optical digital and analog audio are integrated through an 800MHz bi-directional HyperTransport bus.
A Symphony of Capabilities
The Power Mac G5 supports more audio tracks and plug-ins than any previous Power Mac, giving audio professionals a wealth of creative options - all in a native environment. And the built-in optical S/PDIF connects professional as well as consumer audio hardware such as surround sound integrated amplifiers and speaker systems.
Pulse Music Productions in New York City has designed a collaborative, parallel music production workflow using a dual-processor Power Mac G5, Apple Cinema HD display, Logic and ProTools in each of its seven recording studios. All of the rooms are connected to a shared file system, allowing engineers to pass files, session data and tracks instantaneously. This solution puts the same powerful collection of sophisticated instruments and tools into the hands of whomever is working in each room.
Pulse Music loses no time recreating a complicated recording session because it all lives in the Power Mac G5 - ready at a moment's notice - making the process more about the music and less about the gear and setup. This incredibly flexible solution promotes better collaboration because it enables several people to work on different elements of the same production at the same time, resulting in better creativity, better productivity and better music.
Now included on every Power Mac G5, Mac OS X Tiger turns your tower into a finely tuned instrument that lets you focus on the tasks at hand, whether you're creating a workout soundtrack for your iPod, publishing a paper on the human genome or perfecting special effects for the next blockbuster film.
In the Box
Power Mac G5
Apple Keyboard
Apple Mouse
USB keyboard extension cable
DVI to VGA adapter
AirPort antenna
Power cord
Backup/installer DVDs
Printed and electronic documentation
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger
Tiger delivers 200+ new features and improvements, such as the amazing Spotlight search technology and handy Dashboard widgets. Tiger also includes all-new versions of the following system applications:
Safari 2
Mail 2
Address Book 4
iChat AV 3
Font Book 2
DVD Player 4.5
Preview 3
Xcode 2 Developer Tools
More Software
In addition, the Power Mac G5 comes with an incredible bundle of software:
iLife, which includes the latest versions of iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and GarageBand
Art Directors Toolkit X
GraphicConverter
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive
OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner
QuickBooks for Mac New User Edition
Zinio Reader
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