Power Mac G4
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. This was the first existing Macintosh product to be officially shortened as "Mac" (with the exception of the iMac), and is the last Mac able to boot into classic Mac OS with the introduction of Mac OS X.
The enclosure style introduced with the Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) was retained through the entire five-year production run of the Power Mac G4, albeit with significant changes to match Apple's evolving industrial design and to accommodate increasing cooling needs. The G4 and its enclosure were retired with the introduction of the Power Mac G5.
Supported operating systems
| OS release | Graphite | Digital Audio/QuickSilver | Mirrored Drive Doors | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Late 1999 (PCI) | Late 1999 (AGP) | Mid 2000 | Early 2001 | Mid 2001 | Early 2002 | Mid 2002 | Early 2003 | Mid 2003 | |
| Mac OS 8 | 8.6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Mac OS 9 | 9.0.4 | 9.1 | 9.2 | 9.2.2 | Emulation only | 9.2.2 | |||
| 10.0 Cheetah | 10.0.4 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 10.1 Puma | 10.1.2 | — | — | — | |||||
| 10.2 Jaguar | 10.2.3 | ||||||||
| 10.3 Panther | |||||||||
| 10.4 Tiger | |||||||||
| 10.5 Leopard | Patch | With 1 GB RAM | |||||||
Related product
Jony Ive designed this body which was made of glass, infamously.[2] [3]
References
- ↑ "Apple Unveils 'Personal Supercomputer'". SFGate. September 1999.
- ↑ Edwards, Benj (August 12, 2010). "The Cube at 10: Why Apple's eye-catching desktop flopped". Macworld. IDG. ISSN 0741-8647. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
- ↑ Tech Fails of all time. Arun Rupesh Maini. August 2025