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minutes with the 8100 100 to 7 37 for the 8500 120 they also noted that the 8500 runs an average of 24 to 44 percent faster than a similarly clocked intel pentium chip increasing to double on graphics and publishing tasks the transition to pci continued into 1996 with the introduction of the all in one 5400 desktop 6300 160 usually sold as a performa 6360 and mini tower 6400 models the success of the macintosh clone market also prompted apple to produce its own inexpensive machine using parts and production techniques that were common in both the clone market and the wintel desktop market at the time the power macintosh 4400 sold as a 7220 in asia and australia employed bent sheet metal instead of plastic for its case internals and included a standard atx power supply alongside the transition to pci apple began a gradual transition away from scsi hard disks to ide as a cost saving measure both for themselves and for users who wanted to upgrade their hard drives the low end 5200 and 6200 were the first to adopt ide internal drives though apple s proprietary 25 pin external scsi connector remained the beige power macintosh g3 models being the last to include scsi drives as standard and it was the last macintosh to include the external scsi connector when the power macintosh g3 blue and white was introduced in early 1999 the port was replaced by two firewire 400 ports the blue and white g3 was also the last macintosh to include apple desktop bus ports a proprietary technology created by steve wozniak to connect keyboards mice and software protection dongles such as those from avid technology 10 two usb ports were also included making this the only power macintosh to include both adb and usb another port that was retired during this time is the apple attachment unit interface this was a proprietary version of the industry standard attachment unit interface connector for 10base5 ethernet that apple had created to avoid confusion with the 15 pin connector that apple used for connecting external displays 11 the aaui port required a costly external transceiver to connect to a network by the early 1990s the networking industry was coalescing around the 10base t connector leading apple to include this port alongside aaui in mid 1995 starting with the power macintosh 9500 the power macintosh g3 excluded the aaui port the power mac g4 agp graphics was released in the second half of 1999 it was the first power macintosh to include only industry standard internal and external expansion for some years afterwards a number of third parties created dongles that provided backwards compatibility to users of newer power mac systems with old hardware this included companies like griffin technology macally peripherals rose electronics and many others in some cases these companies produced adapters that matched the aesthetic design of the power mac 12 industrial design and the megahertz myth 1999 2002 edit a complete power mac g4 cube system including a 17 apple studio display harman kardon speakers keyboard and mouse shortly after steve jobs return to apple in 1997 jony ive was appointed senior vice president of industrial design building on the critical and commercial success of the imac ive and his team created an entirely new case design for the power macintosh g3 combining many of the aesthetic principles of the imac curves translucent plastics use of color with the ease of access characteristics of the company s popular outrigger macintosh models from previous years the result was the power macintosh g3 blue and white a machine that received considerable plaudits from reviewers including pc magazine s technical excellence award for 1999 13 the power mac provides the fastest access to the insides of a computer we ve ever seen they wrote just lift a handle and a hinged door reveals everything inside this case design code named el capitan 14 was retained through the entire lifetime of the power mac g4 the introduction of the blue and white g3 mini tower also marked the end of the desktop and all in one power macintosh case designs the latter being replaced by the imac a second model called the power mac g4 cube was introduced in 2000 which fitted the specifications of a mid range power mac g4 into a cube less than 9 in each axis this model was on sale for about a year before being discontinued and was not considered a sales success 150 000 units were sold about one third of apple s projections 15 but the distinctive design of both the computer and its accompanying harman kardon speakers prompted the museum of modern art in new york city to retain them in their collection 16 the powerpc chips in the g3 and g4 became a central part of apple s branding and marketing for the power macintosh for example the blue and white g3 features the letters g3 on the side that are fully one third the height of the entire case a significant departure from the small labels typically used on prior macintosh computers and when the power mac g4 was introduced print ads included pictures of the g4 chip and mentioned its altivec instruction set by its own marketing name velocity engine 17 a related element of apple s marketing strategy especially after mid 2001 was to highlight what they described as the megahertz myth challenging the belief that a processor s clock speed is directly correlated with performance this had become important with the introduction of intel s pentium 4 which featured significantly higher clock speeds than competing chips from sun ibm and amd but without a corresponding performance benefit the company s public presentations stevenotes in particular often featured lengthy segments pitting a high powered compaq or dell computer against the power macintosh in a series of benchmarks and scripted tasks usually in adobe photoshop 18 these presentations often showed the power macintosh besting intel s pentium chips by margins significantly exceeding 50 but independent benchmarks did not bear this out infoworld reviewer jennifer plonka reported that the 400 mhz g3 was 11 slower than a comparably specced pentium ii 450 in an office applications suite test while photoshop 5 0 was faster by 26 19 and in 2003 maximum pc ran a variety of gaming photoshop and lightwave 3d benchmarks and reported that the dual 1 25 ghz g4 system was about half the speed of a dual processor intel xeon prestonia 2 8 ghz system 20 a related criticism leveled at power mac systems from this time particularly the g4 mirrored drive doors was the increased fan noise level compared to older systems 21 22 the power mac g5 and the end of the power mac 2003 2006 edit by the time the power mac g5 was unveiled at apple s worldwide developers conference in july 2003 apple s desktop range had fallen significantly behind competing computers in performance the g5 closed much of this gap by moving to the powerpc 970 processor with clock speeds up to 2 0 ghz and a full 64 bit architecture it also introduced a significantly revised enclosure design replacing the use of plastics with anodized aluminum alloy reviews were generally positive infoworld described the g5 as apple s best work yet and said it delivers on the present need for rapid computing deep multitasking and responsive user interfaces as well as the future need for mainstream computers that rapidly process and analyze massive data sets 23 pc magazine again awarded the power mac g5 with its award for technical excellence for 2003 24 however the g5 s heavy weight 10 pounds more than the previous year s quicksilver power mac g4 limited internal expansion options issues with ground loop and noise in the single processor models power supply units resulted in significant criticism of the product 25 apple also continued to make unsubstantiated performance claims about the new power mac this resulted in the advertising standards authority for the united kingdom banning apple from using the phrase the world s fastest most powerful personal computer to describe the power mac g5 after independent tests carried out by the broadcast advertising clearance centre determined the claim to be false 26 another claim made by steve jobs at the 2003 worldwide developers conference was that the company would be selling a 3 ghz g5 by mid 2004 this never happened 27 three generations of power mac g5 were released before it was discontinued during the mac transition to intel processors the announcement of the transition came in mid 2005 but the third generation of g5 systems was introduced towards the end of 2005 most notably in this generation was the introduction of a quad core 2 5 ghz system not only was this the first apple computer with four processing cores it was the first to incorporate pci express instead of pci x for internal expansion 28 it also required an iec 60320 c19 power connector that was more common on rackmounted server hardware instead of the industry standard c13 connector used with personal computers the official end to the power macintosh line came at the 2006 worldwide developers conference where phil schiller introduced its replacement the mac pro the g5 s enclosure design was retained for the mac pro and continued to be used for seven more years making it among the longest lived designs in apple s history 29 models edit the power macintosh models can be broadly classified into two categories depending on whether they were released before or after apple introduced its four quadrant product strategy in 1998 before the introduction of the power macintosh g3 blue and white in 1999 apple had shipped power macintosh labelled machines in nine different form factors some of which were carry overs from pre powerpc product lines such as the quadra centris 610 and the iivx this was reduced to one model in the new product strategy with the exception of the power mac g4 cube in 2000 and 2001 1994 1997 edit apple named power macintosh models from this period after the first pre powerpc model of macintosh to use a particular form factor followed by a slash and the speed of the cpu for example the power macintosh 6300 120 uses the quadra 630 s form factor and has a 120 mhz cpu machines with av in their name denote variants that include extended audio video capabilities machines with pc compatible or dos compatible in their name include a separate card with an x86 compatible cpu typically a 486 or pentium these models are therefore capable of running ms dos and microsoft windows applications typically windows 3 1 for earlier pc compatible machines pre 1995 or windows 95 for later pc compatible machines since 1995 machines with mp in their name denote machines that include two cpus these early models had two distinct generations the first generation uses the powerpc 601 and 603 processors and used the old nubus pds expansion slots while the second generation uses the faster 603e 604 and 604e chips as well as industry standard pci expansion slots the second generation also makes use of open firmware allowing them to more easily boot alternate operating systems including os x via xpostfacto though use of various hacks was still necessary power macintosh 4400 edit the power macintosh 7220 the power macintosh 4400 is a desktop case with a height of 5 4 inches suitable for horizontal placement with a monitor on top power macintosh 4400 160 200 200 pc compatible marketed as the power macintosh 7220 in some regions power macintosh 5200 edit the power macintosh 5200 is an all in one form factor with specifications and internal designs similar to the quadra 630 collectively these machines are sometimes referred to as the power macintosh performa 5000 series power macintosh 5200 75 lc power macintosh 5260 100 120 power macintosh 5300 100 lc power macintosh 5400 120 180 200 power macintosh 5500 225 250 quadra 610 edit the power macintosh 6100 66 a version of the first macintosh to use a powerpc processor the quadra 610 form factor is a low profile pizza box design with a height of 3 4 inches intended to be placed on a desktop with a monitor on top power macintosh 6100 60 60av 66 66av 66 dos compatible quadra 630 edit the quadra 630 form factor is a horizontally oriented design with a height of 4 3 inches suitable for placing a monitor on top power macintosh 6200 75 power macintosh 6300 120 160 performa 6400 edit the performa 6400 form factor is a mini tower design suitable for being placed beside a monitor power macintosh 6400 180 200 power macintosh 6500 225 250 275 300 iivx edit the power macintosh 7100 66 the iivx form factor is a horizontally oriented desktop form factor with a height of 6 inches suitable for placing a monitor on top power macintosh 7100 66 66av 80 80av power macintosh 7500 edit the power macintosh 7500 form factor is a horizontally oriented desktop design with a height of 6 15 inches suitable for placing a monitor on top power macintosh 7200 75 90 120 pc 200 pc power macintosh 7300 166 180 pc 200 power macintosh 7500 100 power macintosh 7600 120 132 200 quadra 800 edit the quadra 800 form factor is a mini tower design with a width of 7 7 inches the 8100 80av the first power macintosh based on the quadra 800 form factor power macintosh 8100 80 80av 100 100av 110 110av power macintosh 8115 110 power macintosh 8200 100 120 power macintosh 8500 120 132 150 180 power macintosh 8515 120 power macintosh 9600 edit the power macintosh 9600 form factor is a mini tower design with a width of 9 7 inches power macintosh 8600 200 250 300 power macintosh 9500 120 132 150 180mp 200 power macintosh 9515 132 power macintosh 9600 200 200mp 233 300 350 1997 2006 edit power macintosh g3 mini tower and blue and white starting with the power macintosh g3 apple changed its product naming to include the generation of powerpc cpu with the name of the form factor or a key feature afterwards in brackets the all in one models would eventually be spun off into the imac line whilst the compact form factor models would be spun off into the mac mini power macintosh g3 edit power macintosh g3 desktop power macintosh g3 mini tower power macintosh g3 all in one power macintosh g3 blue and white power mac g4 edit power mac g4 mirrored drive doors power mac g4 pci graphics power mac g4 agp graphics power mac g4 gigabit ethernet power mac g4 digital audio power mac g4 quicksilver power mac g4 quicksilver 2002 power mac g4 mirrored drive doors power mac g4 mirrored drive doors fw800 power mac g4 mirrored drive doors 2003 power mac g4 cube power mac g5 edit power macintosh g5 dual core 2 3 ghz late 2005 the power mac g5 s name was changed to incorporate the time period in which the model was released power mac g5 mid 2003 power mac g5 mid 2004 power mac g5 late 2004 power mac g5 early 2005 power mac g5 late 2005 naming edit the power mac brand name was used for apple s high end tower style computers targeted primarily at businesses and creative professionals in differentiation to their more compact imac line intended for home use and the emac 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