Technical Details for Apple Power Mac G5 w/ Cinema HD Display

Apple Power Mac G5 w/ Cinema HD Display ... processor - plugged into a new ultrahigh-bandwidth system architecture featuring AGP 8X and PCI-X - makes the Power Mac G5 a breakthrough in desktop processing power and lets you use up to 8 gigabytes of main memory.

With 64-bit power and high-bandwidth architecture, this groundbreaking new 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. The industry's fastest frontside bus, an advanced system controller and high-speed, high-capacity memory combine to make the Power Mac G5 one of the fastest PCs ever built.

The PowerPC G5 processor dramatically accelerates performance in other real world applications, too. The Power Mac G5's ultra-high bandwidth system architecture features up to 1GHz frontside bus - one on each processor - for maximum throughput. And a point-to-point system controller lets data move directly between subsystems, without affecting processor function.

The Power Mac G5 comes with three PCI-X slots, giving you the benefit of the newest advance in PCI technology. The PCI-X protocol supports high-performance PCI devices, increasing speeds from 33MHz to 133MHz and throughput from 266 Mbps to 2GBps.

Compared with the AGP 4X interface, the Power Mac G5's AGP 8X Pro graphics bus effectively doubles the maximum transfer rate and doubles the amount of data transferred in a single AGP bus cycle. The 66MHz AGP 8X Pro bus strobes eight times per clock cycle, achieving a 533MHz data rate and a maximum bandwidth of 2.1GB per second - ideal for the ultrafast graphics cards it ships with, like the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra.

The Power Mac G5 ships with a FireWire 800 port, two FireWire 400 ports and three USB 2.0 ports (plus two USB 1.1 ports on the keyboard). Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire, USB 2.0 and optical digital and analog audio are all integrated through two bidirectional 16-bit, 800MHz HyperTransport interconnects for a maximum throughput of 3.2GB per second.

This Power Mac G5 comes with the Apple HD Cinema Display. The Apple HD Cinema Display sports a 23-inch (viewable) thin film transistor (TFT) active-matrix liquid crystal display that supports an astonishing 1920 by 1200 pixel resolution.

The word "huge" doesn't begin to cover it. Attach the new Apple Cinema HD Display to your Power Mac G5, and you're looking at over 2.3 million digital pixels - more than enough to support high-definition (HD) content in its native format, with room to spare (and yet it takes up very little space on your desk, thanks to its small footprint).

Its widescreen format and high resolution make the Apple Cinema HD Display the must-have display for creative professionals. Forget about wasting time scrolling through documents or toggling between windows. Now you can have ample room for viewing two full pages of text and graphics side by side, with lots of room for tear-off menus, palettes and toolbars, too.