Apple's second announcement today is that it has unveiled the new Power Mac G5 desktop line. Featuring the flagship Power Mac G5 Quad, the system provides quad-core processing with two 2.5GHz dual-core PowerPC G5 processors.All Power Mac G5 models now feature dual-core processors, a new PCI Express (PCIe) architecture and higher performance graphics options including nVidia's workstation-optimised Quadro FX 4500.

With two 2.5GHz dual-core processors, each with 1MB of L2 cache, the Power Mac G5 Quad promises breakthrough performance on applications used extensively by creative professionals and scientists. For example, Apple claims Final Cut Pro 5 encodes SD video content up to 60 per cent faster when compared with the Dual Processor 2.7GHz Power Mac G5, and Adobe's Photoshop runs a series of 45 commonly used filters and actions 43 per cent faster on the new Power Mac G5 Quad.

The Power Mac G5 line offers PCIe architecture, providing four expansion slots to support high-performance video and audio devices and multiple standard graphics cards to drive an array of up to eight displays. The Power Mac G5 delivers up to 16GB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM and now features two Gigabit Ethernet ports - ideal for those working in an Xsan environment.

Every Power Mac G5 also includes one FireWire 800 port, two FireWire 400 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 1.1 ports, optical and digital audio input and output, and built-in support for AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. The new Power Mac G5 line also includes Apple's next generation mouse, Mighty Mouse, featuring up to four programmable buttons and a Scroll Ball that lets you scroll in any direction - vertically, horizontally and even diagonally.

The new Power Mac G5 comes standard with either the nVidia's GeForce 6600 LE with 128MB of dedicated video memory or nVidia's GeForce 6660 with 256MB of dedicated video memory. Both provide support for dual-displays and Apple's stunning 30-inch Cinema HD Display. The nVidia GeForce 7800GT with 256MB of video memory and the nVidia
Quadro FX 4500 with 512MB of video memory are both available as build-to-order options.

Other features include 512MB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (expandable up to 16GB), 160GB Serial ATA hard disk drive running at 7200rpm, three spare PCIe expansion slots, two 4-lane slots and one 8-lane slot, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, and a 16x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW).

Build-to-order options include up to 16GB of NECC or ECC DDR2 SDRAM, up to two 500GB Serial ATA hard disk drives running at 7200rpm, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, nVidia Quadro FX 4500 graphics card with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth module, Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple Wireless Mouse, Xserve RAID and Apple Fibre Channel PCIe Card.

The 2.0GHz and 2.3GHz Power Mac G5 Dual are available now and the 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad will be available in early November through the Apple Store.

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