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The Power Mac G4 is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from 1999 to 2004 as part of the Power Macintosh line. Built around the PowerPC G4 series of microprocessors, the Power Mac G4 was marketed by Apple as the first "personal supercomputers", [1] reaching speeds of 4 to 20 gigaFLOPS.
The Power Mac G5, the last model of the series. The Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc as the core of the Macintosh brand from March 1994 until August 2006.
Introductory price: US$4,200 (equivalent to $8,634 in 2023) Discontinued: August 5, 1995 () Operating system: System 7.1.2 – 9.1 (except 7.5.2) CPU: PowerPC 601, 80–100 MHz PowerPC 601v, 110 MHz: Memory: 8 MB, expandable to 264 MB (80 ns 72-pin SIMM) Predecessor: Macintosh Quadra 650 Macintosh Quadra 800 Macintosh Quadra 840AV: Successor
[1] This was the only Power Macintosh to be designed with the goal of using low-cost manufacturing techniques; the 4400 was removed from Apple's lineup a few months after the Power Macintosh G3 Desktop went on sale, which was priced comparably to the 4400 but used Apple's Power Macintosh 7300 form factor instead.
Introductory price: US$3,000 (equivalent to $5,999 in 2023) Discontinued: May 18, 1996 () Operating system: System 7.5.2 - Mac OS 9.1: CPU: PowerPC 601 @ 100 MHz: Memory: 8 or 16 MB, expandable to 1 GB (70 ns 168 pin DIMM) Predecessor: Power Macintosh 7100: Successor: Power Macintosh 7600 Power Macintosh 7300
[1] Production of the 5200 and 5300 models was discontinued in the first half of 1996, with the PowerPC 603e -based Power Macintosh 5260 (with Performa 5260CD and 5270CD variants) and Power Macintosh 5400 (with Performa 5400CD, 5410CD and 5420CD variants) being offered as replacements at different price points.
The Quadra 950 was replaced by the PowerPC-based Power Macintosh 9500 in June 1995, with sales continuing until October. [4] It was the last Macintosh Quadra sold by Apple, and one of the last 68k models to be discontinued, due to its high RAM capacity and large number of NuBus slots.
The Power Macintosh 5500 is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from February 1997 to March 1998. Like the Power Macintosh 5260 and 5400 that preceded it, the 5500 is an all-in-one design, built around a PowerPC 603ev processor operating at 225, 250 or 275 megahertz (MHz).