For almost five years, the heart of the Power Mac was the PowerPC G4 chip. Starting in 1999 it clocked at just 350 MHz, but by the time the Power Mac G4 line was retired, a tower with dual 1.42 GHz ...
The Mac Mini motherboard was then prepped to install in the iMac’s dome-shaped housing; notably, the entire board is smaller than the stock iMac G4’s hard drive. It still took plenty of ...
The G4 comes in an unusual choice of material – leather – and offers interesting UI tweaks through its new features. The most significant changes, however, come in the build quality and camera ...
Last month, we looked at the Power Mac G4 line, a series of computers that defined the professional workstation for OS X users for many years. In June 2003 — 15 years ago this month — Steve Jobs took ...
In January 2006, the first Intel Macs were announced. We’ll deal more with that anniversary in a year, but for now, it’s worth walking through the final full year of PowerPC Macs. Transitions happen ...