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Powered by the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor — at speeds up to 3GHz — Mac Pro runs up to 2x faster than the Power Mac G5 Quad, answering your dreams for world-class performance,
workstation graphics, and (with more than 4 million possible configurations) outstanding opportunities for future expandability. Upgrade to the Performance Package.
No matter what the format — DV, SD, HDV, HD, or even film — the Mac Pro gives film and video professionals the freedom and power to create studio-quality and award-winning projects.
Mac Pro is the perfect client for Xsan, Apple’s enterprise-class storage area network (SAN) solution. Xsan provides concurrent access to terabytes of storage on centralized Xserve RAID volumes from multiple computers — providing the high performance required by individual editors, as well as the stability and security valued by network administrators.
An Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card can connect Mac Pro to Xserve RAID and an Xsan network. Built-in dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and the new double-wide PCI Express graphics slot on Mac Pro frees up slots for specialized cards such as a PCI Express video I/O card or an audio DSP or I/O card for sound editing.
For more information on the Xsan video workflow, visit www.apple.com/xsan.
“We couldn't believe it when we realized that Mac Pro renders images 2x faster than even the Power Mac G5 Quad. This really is an amazing machine.”
- Dana Batali, Director of RenderMan Development, Pixar Animation Studios
Innovative tools for the Mac platform — such as Logic Pro, Logic Express, Soundtrack Pro, Digidesign Pro Tools, MOTU Digital Performer, Ableton Live and Waves — provide composers and sound designers with a wealth of software for capturing every inspiration. With Mac Pro, there’s even more power available to compose, record, edit, mix, and perform.
Mac OS X integrates a range of audio technologies into a modern platform, delivering stunning audio quality from 24kHz to 192kHz, outstanding performance, and ease of use for musicians, composers, sound designers, and audio editors. The Audio Units plug-in architecture allows plug-ins to be used across Mac OS X audio applications. Apple supplies several Audio Units in Mac OS X, including one that adjusts timing without affecting pitch and a matched pair that streams audio over a network.
Also integrated are MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) Services for increased stability and performance, as well as Audio MIDI Setup for managing MIDI needs and defining a systemwide MIDI configuration that’s available to all applications.
“Our customers will be totally energized by the power of the Mac Pro. It’s optimally suited for serious audio processing - effects plug-ins and software virtual instruments will thrive on this machine.”
- Dave Lebolt, General Manager, Digidesign
The new Mac Pro workstation lets scientific researchers visualize data beautifully, analyze data efficiently, and achieve results quickly. Whether it’s 3D molecular modeling with PyMOL, searching for DNA alignments with HMMER, or modeling equations with Mathematica, scientific insights arrive faster with Mac Pro.
The Mac Pro delivers the performance, ease of use, and interoperability you need to accelerate your research and make your next discovery.
In fields such as molecular modeling, genomics, computational chemistry, GIS, or medical imaging, scientists depend on advanced graphics and visualiztion to extract meaning from their data sets. In some cases, they need to visualize more data than a conventional planar display can present. By turning to stereoscopic technologies, researchers can add another dimension to the data they’re visualizing, helping them investigate extreme large data sets — e.g., drug protein interactions — or extremely complex data — e.g., a detailed aerial photograph.
To view such an added dimension on CRT displays, researchers using Mac Pro can employ the optional NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card which features a stereo 3D graphics port, enabling the use of stereo 3D goggles (such as those available form Stereo Graphics Corporation). Stereo-in-a-window support in Mac OS X further enhances visualization, letting researchers interact with their data in real time — to control the model, edit data, or make notations — while viewing the rest of their workflow seamlessly in 2D windows.(3)
“Apple continues to bring the best hardware for science and engineering to market in record time.”
- Theodore Gray, Co-founder, Wolfram Research
Bring ideas to life with the new Mac Pro workstation and publishing tools such as QuarkXPress — now 100% native on the Intel-based Mac Pro. Whether it’s designing for print or for the Web, you can realize your best ideas as fast as you can imagine them.
Mac Pro, Mac OS X Tiger, and an Apple Cinema Display lets designers implement an entirely digital, color-managed workflow — improving the quality of printed output while saving time and money. Apple’s groundbreaking ColorSync technology, based on the International Color Consortium (ICC) standard for color management, is built into every phase of a Mac-based design workflow. From capture to edit to output, color translates accurately from one device to another.
Apple Cinema Displays work as a virtual color palette, with advanced panel technology for flicker-free viewing and twice the brightness, sharpness, and contrast of a CRT. A calibration device from X-Rite can be used to calibrate the Apple Cinema Display, resulting in consistent color proofs, reduced express shipping expenses, and fewer proofing cycles.
For more information about how color management in Mac OS X can enhance workflow and improve final output, visit www.apple.com/pro/color.
Then you’ll want to focus your attention on the blazing fast, highly expandable Mac Pro. That’s because it addresses just about every need that might arise for digital photographers.
So many images, so little time. When it comes to the demanding task of reviewing hundreds — or thousands — of images and identifying your best work, nothing beats having a truly large canvas on which to make your selects. Like the canvas provided by a pair of big, beautiful Apple Cinema Displays.
Because both Aperture and Mac Pro were designed with multiple displays in mind, you have numerous options for building your perfect photographic workstation. With the ATI Radeon X1900 XT graphics card, for example, you can connect two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays and have a canvas that’s practically life size.
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