Mac Professional cards have finally arrived

[eltopo]

Today Apple released new G5's. They have dual core processors, up to 16GB RAM and four PCI Express slots capable of driving up to 8 monitors simultaneously.

The nvidia Quadro FX4500 is available as an option.

This is probably the first workstation mac ever, and the last major upgrade until the INTEL switch.

[lanky]

'four PCI Express slots capable of driving up to 8 monitors simultaneously.'

8O not sure how you are doing your maths, but you can only fit one graphics card into the mac. Just because it has 4 PCI-Express slots does not mean that you can fit 4 graphics cards physically into the box, in fact if the layout of the expansion slots is the same as the origonal g5, you will actually cover one of those extra PCI-Express slots with the Nvidia graphics cards, which are generally double height.

Still, veerry nice machines, waiting on ours for dev and expecting great things of them in combination with the OS.

best

Lanky

[lanky]

Actually, I'll correct myself re the graphics cards after re-reading the post. Looks like the 6800 is no longer available for these macs, which was double height, the 6600 and the could be single height, but you can still only put one of them in at a time.

The Quadro FX 4500 IS double height though, but that beastie has enough oomph to drive 4 monitors (not sure if that config is supported through Osx) anyway. Also, how much real estate do you want, are 2 30 inch apple monitors not enough for you? :wink:

[robbyracer]

Wow I wonder how well Motion runs on one of those babies 8O

[eltopo]

Here are some answers to your questions

http://www.apple.com/powermac/graphics.html

[-k]

The nvidia Quadro FX4500 is available as an option.

Apple did not manage to put out decent drivers for the geforces (the maya performace is a bad joke) so lets just hope they get it right this time, but I remain sceptical...

-k