Suggested Mac Configurations for Medical Imaging
Medical Imaging on the Move
For home or office MacBook Pro is an ideal platform that gives medical professionals the mobility to use their systems in the office connected to an Apple Cinema Display or take the system on the road.
Recommended configuration:
- 15 or 17-inch MacBook Pro, 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- RAM: 4GB DDR2 SDRAM (highly recommended)
- 200 GB Serial ATA drive @ 7200 rpm
- Option: Connect MacBook Pro with 23-inch or 30-inch Apple Cinema HD display for DICOM viewing
Medical Imaging Desktop
The 24-inch iMac for medical professionals provides qualities that you need to run silently with the convenience of an all-in-one design to save valuable desktop space.
Recommended configuration:
- 24-inch iMac, 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- RAM: 4GB DDR2 SDRAM
- 500 GB Serial ATA Drive
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS w/512MB GDDR3
Ulimate Medical Imaging Workstation
The Mac Pro is the ultimate DICOM Viewing workstation, giving you the flexibility of connecting two or more 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays – to give you 8 mega pixels of viewing space. The fastest Quad-Core Intel with the top of the line graphics cards allows you visualize 2D/3D and 5D fused data – with ease that you have not experienced before.
Recommended configuration:
- Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core)
- RAM minimum 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR2 ECC RAM (for larger DICOM stacks)
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (Two dual-link DVI)
- 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS Drives
- Displays: Two 23-inch or two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD displays