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KONA LH/LHe Installation and Operation Manual — System Requirements
System Requirements
AJA Video recommends that your system meet minimum hardware and software
requirements to achieve a satisfactory level of performance when operating it. Here,
we provide minimum and recommended requirements and then discuss disk storage
issues that should be understood for proper system configuration.
Minimum and
Recommended
System and
Software
Requirements
The following table outlines the system hardware and software needed.
Item Minimum Recommended
Macintosh
Operating System
OS X, version 10.4,
QuickTime 7
OS X latest release.
QuickTime 7 or Latest
Editing/Production
Software Suite
Final Cut Pro 5HD Final Cut Pro Studio
Macintosh Model KONA LHe
Minimum:
Power Mac G5 (dual)
PCI-Express
2GHz with
1GB or more RAM
Model KONA LH
Minimum:
Power Mac G5 (dual)
1.8GHz with
1GB or more RAM
PCI 66/64 slot required
(PCI-X slot required)
Model KONA LHe
Recommended:
Power Mac G5
PCI-Express
(dual) 2.3 GHz or
Quad 2.5GHz with
1GB or more RAM
Model KONA LH
Recommended:
Power Mac G5 (dual)
2.5 GHz or better with
1GB or more RAM
(PCI-X slot required)
Internal Storage (inside Mac)
For DV only; uncompressed
SD requires external RAID.
SATA (1 internal HD) SATA (2 internal HDs
RAIDed)
RAID Interface Fibre Channel or SCSI Fibre Channel or SCSI
Disk Storage
Note: see Storage Methods
topic that follows later in this
Chapter
4 SCSI Hard Drives
External RAID
Apple Xserve RAID