Buying and Mac for Photography

You can buy an Apple nearly anywhere... why not actually talk to someone who really understands the range and can help choose the right one for your photographic needs. At the same time you can have it configured with software from Adobe, Apple, Capture One and many others.

We’ll integrate it into your environment. We can also calibrate and profile your displays and printers.

Mac Pro

The Mac Pro is the most powerful and flexible workstation in the Apple range.

The power mainly comes from the Quad-Core and 6-core models or the blazing Eight-Core & 12-core models. This means that RAW processing or video rendering times just dropped massively over previous machines.

Mac Pro's also offer the flexibility of up to 32GB of RAM, 8TB or internal storage, up to 8 external displays and the PCI Express 2.0 slots mean that a range of external storage is almost unlimited.

Call us to get the right balance of all these elements that will suit your needs and budget.

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MacBook Pro

The new MacBook Pro, available in 13-, 15-, and 17-inch models, sets all-new benchmarks for Mac notebooks.

The 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro feature Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors, which boost performance up to 50 percent over the previous model and reach speeds up to 2.3GHz.

Solid State Drives (SSD) in the MacBook Pro really boost performance and make them an absolute pleasure to use.

With next-generation AMD graphics and their LED-backlight displays, MacBook Pro is perfect for graphics-intensive applications that Photographers use. And the built-in battery lasts up to 10 hours (8 to 9 hours on the 15- and 17-inch models).

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iMac

The new iMac features a 21.5-inch or 27-inch LED-backlit display with a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio—perfect for HD video.

Intel Quad-Core i5 processors now start at 2.5GHz, but the 27" model is also available with i5 3.1GHz quad-coreor i7 3.4GHz quad-core Intel processors that provide a massive boost in performance when processing RAW images.

iMac now ship with Thunderbolt port on every model (two Thunderbolt ports on 27-inch model) and all new, next-generation AMD Radeon HD graphics processors.

iMac comes standard with the Apple Wireless Keyboard and the new wireless Magic Mouse: the world’s first Multi-Touch mouse.

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Mac Mini Server

On June 16th Apple unveiled a completely redesigned Mac mini, featuring up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port and a new SD card slot, all in an amazingly compact aluminium enclosure.

Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server is specifically designed to be a server. There are two 500GB 7200-rpm hard drives with plenty of storage to help your group work more efficiently. It comes with unlimited client licenses. And you can access and swap files quickly and securely between Mac computers and PCs.

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So whilst we don't suggest these are high end imaging machines, the cool thing about the Mac Mini is it's Server configuration. Connect a FireWire storage device (like an 8TB RAID 5 unit) and all of a sudden it becomes an inexpensive but effective central storage for a few users in a studio.

Ask us to design a system that is right for you! Specular: 03 9091 2111 or email

Storage

Confused about hard drives, terabytes, RAID, mirroring, FireWire, USB, backup and archiving!? There’s many options available we understand them all. Come in and talk about your processes and let us help you design a workflow and storage system that works for you.