"As part of an upgraded Power Mac G5 lineup, Apple will offer a new Power Mac G5 Quad that provides quad-core processing with two 2.5 GHz dual-core PowerPC G5 processors. All Power Mac G5 models now feature dual-core processors, a new PCI Express architecture and higher performance graphics options including NVIDIA's Quadro FX 4500," reports GX.
Apple also introduced Aperture, "the first all-in-one post production tool that provides everything photographers need after the shoot," reports LetsGoDigital.
Aperture offers an advanced and incredibly fast RAW workflow that makes working with a camera's RAW images as easy as JPEG. Built from the ground up for pros, Aperture features powerful compare and select tools, nondestructive image processing, color managed printing and custom web and book publishing. "Aperture is to professional photography what Final Cut Pro is to filmmaking," said Rob Schoeben, Apple's vice president of Applications Marketing. "Finally, an innovative post production tool that revolutionizes the pro photo workflow from compare and select to retouching to output."
According to Apple, the Power Mac G5 Quad, with a suggested retail price of £2,299 (inc VAT), includes:
• two dual-core 2.5GHz PowerPC G5 processors; • 512MB of 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM expandable up to 16GB; • 250GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 7200 rpm; • NVIDIA GeForce 6600 with 256MB of GDDR SDRAM • three open PCI Express expansion slots: two 4-lane slots and one 8-lane slot; • dual Gigabit Ethernet ports; • 16x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW); and • ships with Mighty Mouse and Apple Keyboard.
Comment: Not sure why Apple includes 512MB of RAM. Might as well ship it with none, so you can just buy the couple of gigs you need from (probably) Crucial.
