Although selling for the same price as the Yikes! model, the newer 350 MHz model has DVD instead of CD-ROM, AGP video instead of PCI video, and the ability to accept an AirPort card. On 1999.12.02, Apple replaced the 350 MHz Yikes! with a Sawtooth model of the same speed. This may have been the first time in personal computer history that any model saw a downgrade in performance without any reduction in price. At the same time, a 400 MHz Sawtooth was introduced at the previous price of the 450 MHz model, and the 450 MHz Sawtooth was configured to replace the postponed 500 MHz machine at the price announced for the 500 MHz model. On 1999.10.13, Apple officially postponed the 500 MHz G4 until January due to problems Motorola was having producing a 500 MHz processor in quantity. The Sawtooth G4 not only has bootable USB, which Yikes! does not, but it also has two separate USB controllers, “to better balance the throughput requirements of the individual USB devices on the bus.” ( USB Info and Benefits of Dual-Channel USB) The Yikes! models uses a modified Yosemite (Blue & White) motherboard, while the AGP model covered here is based on the superior Sawtooth motherboard. Even though both looked the same from the front and sides, they have different motherboards and features. Note that there were two very different versions of the Power Mac G4.
And with 1-4 gigaflops (billion floating point operations per second) performance at 500 MHz, it was a supercomputer by government definition when it was released.
#MAC G4 SPECS PRO#
Cost me a bit but I did it for the fun of upgrading it.“Wicked fast” is the phrase that best summarizes the breakthrough performance of the Power Mac G4 – the first personal computer classified as munitions and under export restriction because of its power. Offering up to twice the performance of the Power Mac G3 and three times the power of a Pentium III at the same clock speed, the G4 was Apple’s first serious pro computer after Steve Jobs became iCEO.ĭesigned in graphite gray, silver, and clear plastic, it even looks professional. It's now a 1.8Ghz G4 with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and runs quite well with even leopard. I have one and used it stock before upgrading it.
#MAC G4 SPECS UPGRADE#
The CPU and Video upgrades are not cheap though! Just a warning.Īs it sits if you upgrade the RAM to at least 1GB or more, it will do all the basic things pretty well. That is why I suggest Tiger.ĭepending on what you want to do with the machine and how much you want to spend, you can upgrade the CPU, Video card, RAM. Panther is not supported, Safari is really bad with many sites with 10.3.9 even. It would be good to max it out with the 3 PC133 modules. Another way to tell is the Digital Audio models have the Audio ports at the very top of the back panel above the rest of the USB and Firewire ports like the faster and newer Quicksilver models. The DA was the only G4 tower with a 466 G4. It will accept 3 512Meg PC133 modules for 1.5GB RAM.
#MAC G4 SPECS PC#
It's PC ram but not what recent PC's use.
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