Today Apple, in addition to unveiling new PowerBook G4s and the photography software application Aperture, today announced its new Power Mac G5 dual core processor desktop line. Two single dual core processor models, priced at $1,999 for a 2.0 GHz model and $2,499 for a 2.3 GHz model – are available now, while a double dual core 2.5 GHz model, priced at $3,299, will be available in early November.
The new Power Mac G5s, said Apple, come loaded to play. Besides the dual core PowerPC processors, they have 512 MB of 513 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, a 160 or 250 GB Serial ATA hard drive, Nvidia GeForce 6600 graphics, three open PCI Express expansion slots, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one FireWire 800 port, two FireWire 400 ports, four USB 2.0 ports two USB 1.1 ports, built-in support for AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and a 16x SuperDrive with double layer DVD+R DL/DVD+/-RW/CD-RW support.
Apple, in the same announcement, also said they’d dropped the price of their 30†Cinema HD Displays to $2,499.
“The Power Mac G5 Quad delivers the workstation performance our creative and scientific customers demand,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With quad-core processing, a new PCI Express architecture, and the fastest workstation card from NVIDIA, the new Power Mac G5 Quad is the most powerful system we’ve ever made.”
