“The RM1N will exert a unique appeal for those needing serious HD editing capability,” says Jun Koyama, Marketing Director for Sony VAIO of Europe (VOE). “It has quad-core processing power, professional software pre-installed, a specialised Jog controller for speeding up editing, and it has Blu-ray Disc™. You’re looking at real-world figures of at least 20 hours HD editing time thanks to the terabyte hard disk, plus the facility to record 50GB of high-definition video on a single Blu-ray Disc™. This is why we’re calling the RM1N the ultimate HD workstation.”
In a radical departure from the norms of desktop design, the RM1N’s system unit comes in two parts. The Main Unit holds the motherboard and major components, while the Access Unit houses the optical drives, hard disk and multi-format card reader. This gives users huge flexibility in the way they set the machine up. For example the optical unit can be placed under the monitor for easy access, while the system unit is stood off to one side. Both units can stand vertically as well as horizontally, so there are lots of possibilities. Whichever you choose, the end result will always be a setup that suits the way you like to work.
Continuing the ergonomic focus, the RM1N is supplied with a specially designed Jog controller which is fully compatible with the pre-installed copy of Adobe® Premiere® Pro 2.0 (worth over 500GBP). This puts the full power of one of the most sophisticated native HD video editing packages available literally right at your fingertips.
In addition to outstanding video editing software, the RM1N is supplied with all you need for handling HD content. WinDVD™ BD For VAIO lets you watch HD-format movies, and full HDCP support means you can enjoy the latest HD Hollywood releases. Click to DVD BD™ provides simple but powerful tools for burning your HD content onto Blu-ray Disc™ for export or archiving.
In order to give the RM1N wings when it comes to the demanding work of HD video editing it has the very latest Intel® Core™ 2 Quad processor. With four processor cores and 8MB of shared L2 cache, this represents the state-of-the-art CPU for professional-grade multimedia applications. There’s a similarly impressive amount of storage on offer too, with a twin disk Serial ATA RAID 0 array totalling 1 terabyte (1024GB).
Of course the choice of graphics card is vital for a system like this, which is why VAIO selected the NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600 GTS. From video manipulation to high-end gaming, with full DirectX 10 support, superlative 3D effects and tremendous performance backed by 256MB of GDDR3 video memory, this is a GPU that delivers exactly what is required.
Unlike many desktops, the RM1N is truly expandable. The system unit has room for an additional four SATA hard disks, and there are three open PCI-Express slots capable of taking full-length cards. So you are free to upgrade and develop the machine in whatever way you like. Equally generous provision is made for Integrating with peripherals and cameras in the form of 10 USB 2.0 connectors and three i.LINK ports front-mounted for convenient access. RM1N Desktop: features overview - CPU: Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 with 8192KB shared L2 cache
- Chipset: Intel® P965 Express Chipset
- RAM: 2GB DDR2 SDRAM
- HDD: 1TB (2 x 500GB 7200rpm) Serial ATA RAID 0 array
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600 GTS with 527MB total available graphics memory
- Optical: DVD+-RW/+-R DL/RAM and Blu-ray Disc™ (50GB)
- Screen: Not included
- Special features: Split design, Jog controller (supports Adobe® Premiere® Pro)
- LAN: 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T
- Software includes: Adobe® Premiere® Pro 2.0, WinDVD™ BD for VAIO, Click to DVD BD™
- Operating system: Windows Vista™ Business
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