Apple - Products - Power Mac G4

The new Power Mac G4 can hold up to 1.5 gigabytes of high-performance PC100 SDRAM (unlike PCs, that typically wimp out at 768MB). This means that you can load up enough memory for the apps that need it most—and that your work-in-progress data can be kept in fast memory. Resulting in substantial performance boosts.

You’ll find that other key capabilities are expanded, as well. After building in many of the features that traditionally required additional slots—like 100BASE-T Ethernet and FireWire, for instance—we went ahead and included three 64-bit PCI slots and one dedicated graphics card slot (either a 66MHz PCI slot or an AGP 2X slot).

Why the extra slots? Because video editing professionals (and the category is growing so fast that if you’re not working with digital video now, chances are you soon will be) need to pop in additional boards for different types of special effects and audio processing.

The Power Mac G4 is the most massively expandable Macintosh in history. Factor in support for more than 100 gigabytes of internal hard disk storage. Two 400-megabit-per-second FireWire ports for connecting up to 63 digital video cameras, hard disk drives and high-speed multimedia peripherals (three FireWire ports on some model configurations), plus two USB ports for connecting up to 127 peripherals per channel. And with an optional AirPort Card or AirPort Base Station for wireless networking—available on two model configurations—the Power Mac G4 is ready when you are, with an antenna already built into its translucent top handle.

Hold the Band-Aids
Perhaps best of all, expansion is not only easy, it’s quick and painless, too. You can upgrade the Power Mac G4 instantly, on a whim—without cutting your fingers on sharp-edged innards as you would with a run-of-the-mill PC. The swing-open side door of the Power Mac G4 lets you open it up and pop in a card (or drive, or additional memory) whenever you feel like it. No first aid training necessary.

Tech Specs | G4 Processor | Graphics Acceleration | Digital Video | Expansion