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Combining ultimate performance with a revolutionary new industrial design, the HP Z800 Workstation delivers the extreme speed and massive expandability that you demand to tackle your biggest challenges.

Designed for speed, inside and out, the new HP Z800 revolutionizes workstation industrial design. Featuring brushed aluminum side panels, integrated handles, visually cable-less engineering that maximizes airflow, modular component removal and reconnect and optional liquid cooling, among many other signature HP Workstation innovations, this is a system you’ll want everyone to see; minimize power and cooling costs with ENERGY STAR® qualified systems featuring 85% or 88% efficient power supplies and an HP-developed energy-saving feature that helps lower energy consumption in off mode.

Get massive, whole-system computational power from a workstation that optimizes the way the processor, memory, graphics, OS and software technology work together; process more tasks—in less time—with the massive computational horsepower of the new quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors 1 and Intel® QuickPath Technology architecture; customize your HP Z800 with faster and larger memory capacity and large-scale storage; choose from a breadth of operating system choices and new professional graphics options from ATI and NVIDIA.

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Magic Bullet Suite 11 is the newest  release toolkit that brings professional tools to filmmakers everywhere. Designed by seasoned colorist and film director Stu Maschwitz, this Suite produces professional Hollywood-style results on an indie budget. Its nine essential tools let you capture the emotion of your subject, making your footage more personal and compelling. With the addition of Looks version 2 and our new Cosmo plug-in for easy skin smoothing, MBS 11 keeps outdoing itself, giving you more expert products at an even greater savings. Whether you are creating a color treatment, color grading, adding a beauty pass or removing noise, Magic Bullet Suite helps you create the final look that tells your story perfectly.

What’s New

• Includes new Looks 2 release and Grinder 1.5 upgrade
• Introduces brand new Cosmo for beautiful cosmetic clean-up
• Save time with single installer and one serial number for all products
• Now supports Adobe CS 5.5, CS5, 64-bit

Visit the Red Giant website for more information.

Thunderbolt technology supports blazing-fast data transfer with two independent channels of 10Gbit/s each. Use the Apple Thunderbolt cable to connect your Thunderbolt-equipped peripherals to your new iMac or new MacBook Pro.

Apple Thunderbolt cable can also be used for Target Disk Mode between two Macs that support Thunderbolt, or to use a new iMac as a display for a MacBook Pro equipped with Thunderbolt.

Visit the Apple website for more information.

Hardware RAID that unleashes the power of Thunderbolt.

Promise Pegasus R4 is the first four-bay high-performance hardware RAID solutions designed to unleash the raw power of Thunderbolt™. Pegasus R4 features four 1TB 7200-rpm hard drives in a compact hardware RAID enclosure with Thunderbolt connectivity. Delivering over 500MB/s of disk performance, Pegasus is compatible with Mac systems with Thunderbolt and required Thunderbolt cable (sold separately).

• 4TB of raw capacity
• Advanced RAID engine
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 50, 6 and 10
• Attractive, stylish, and compact enclosure
• Ultra-quiet design
• Two Thunderbolt ports

Visit the Apple website for more information.

The 10.6.8 update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:

• Enhance the Mac App Store to get your Mac ready to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion
• Resolve an issue that may cause Preview to unexpectedly quit
• Improve support for IPv6
• Improve VPN reliability
• Identify and remove known variants of Mac Defender

Visit the Apple website for more information.