Final Cut Portable HD Solution (AJA Io HD)

Quad-Core Intel Core i7 @ 2.3GHz.

Get a QuoteThe new 17-inch MacBook Pro bring quad-core power to almost everything you do. The 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor — with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.4GHz and up to 8MB of shared L3 cache — enables these MacBook Pro models to run applications up to twice as fast as their top-of-the-line predecessors.

New Ultrafast I/O Port

Imagine accessing multiple streams of uncompressed HD video — from your notebook — at speeds that let you edit an HD feature film in real time. That’s how Thunderbolt technology will connect the next generation of high-performance peripherals to the next generation of computers — starting with MacBook Pro. Ultrafast and ultraflexible, the Thunderbolt pipeline is more than 12 times faster than FireWire 800 and up to 20 times faster than USB 2.0, and it offers unprecedented expansion capabilities. It changes what you can do on a notebook.

AMD Radeon and Intel HD Graphics

For graphics-intensive projects, the MacBook Pro models automatically switch to new high-performance AMD Radeon graphics processor. With up to 3x the performance of the previous models, it lets you work on HD video projects with more speed and responsiveness than before.

AJA Io HD

AJA Io HD is the only device in the world that supports Apple's ProRes 422 codec in hardware, enabling true 10-bit video editing on a MacPro desktop or a MacBook Pro laptop. With this high performance hardware and innovative codec from Apple, you can work anywhere in SD or HD-all in full-raster 10-bit 4:2:2 quality.

Like other members of the Io family, Io HD offers unparalleled video and audio connectivity. Within its portable and ruggedly cool form factor, Io HD offers SD/HD analog I/O, SD/HD digital I/O including HD-SDI and HDMI, Balanced analog and digital AES audio, as well as RS-422, Genlock, and even LTC timecode connections. Io HD also includes AJA's realtime hardware 10-bit up/down/cross conversion.

Sonnet Fusion F2 1TB

Sonnet Fusion F2 employs two 320GB or 500GB, 5,400 RPM, 2.5" mobile hard drives that offer an optimal balance between speed, power consumption, and reliability. Sonnet chose these high-performance drives because they offer greater areal density than other mobile hard drives (pack more data per platter), use the 3 Gb/sec SATA interface, and deliver better performance than the 7,200 RPM drives we tested; simply put, they are the fastest 2.5" mobile hard drives available today. Fusion F2's drives are also extremely quiet and very rugged, making the Fusion F2 a great travel companion for your mobile studio.

Connected to a Sonnet Tempo SATA ExpressCard/34 installed in a MacBook® Pro, and with its drives configured as a RAID 0 striped volume, the compact Fusion F2 is capable of 126 MB/sec sustained read and write data transfers, fast enough to handle multiple streams of ProRes 422 (HQ)! Compared to the slower 66 MB/sec performance from a pair of drives connected via FireWire 800, the advantage is clear-Fusion F2 provides you the capability to capture and play more streams of compressed video for field editing.