Discover the Mac.
Whether you’re new to Mac or already have a Mac and want to upgrade your current setup, the following guide will help you find the Mac solution that best fits your needs.
First Mac
Mac mini, MacBook, and iMac offer full-featured and cost-efficient ways to extend and enhance your existing compute solution.
Options: Mac mini can be used with your current DVI or VGA display. And both the MacBook and iMac allow you to extend your desktop space by connecting an additional external display to the CPU.
Ideal Bench Partner
Powerful and elegant, with every feature built into its sleek design, the iMac is the ideal system for a confined workspace or lab area. Built-in iSight camera acts as a collaboration tool for instant video conferencing.
Options: Expandable memory, graphics, and storage options.
Mobile Research and Development
For scientists on the go, the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro combine mobility with uncompromising performance. Pick the model that best suits your needs and get a highly versatile tool for software development, general productivity and data analysis.
Options: If you need more workspace, simply connect an Apple Cinema Display to the DVI port on the MacBook Pro.
Power Research Tool
The Mac Pro, combined with an Apple Cinema Display, gives you unmatched versatility and utility in one high-performance desktop system: Power for tough computational problems, fast graphics for visualization, robust developer tools for scientific development, and all the ports you need for peripherals and instrumentation.
Options: The Mac Pro is the most configurable workstation from Apple ever. Select the storage, RAM, processing power, graphics card, and peripherals that are right set up for you. Stereo 3D visualization works beautifully with the NVIDIA FX 5600 Quadro card.
Personal or Departmental Cluster
The Apple Workgroup Cluster is an all-inclusive, high performance cluster that’s simple to buy, set-up, use, and manage. It delivers incredible multi-processing power for scientists who need more than their desktop systems can provide. You can also run your custom code developed with Xcode.
Options: Select from pre-qualified applications delivered with the hardware or run your own applications or custom code on the Apple Workgroup Cluster