Power Mac G4

Power Mac G4

The "Graphite" Power Mac G4
Developer	Apple Computer
Product family	Power Macintosh
Type	Mini Tower
Release date	August 31, 1999
Discontinued	June 9, 2004
CPU	single or dual PowerPC G4, 350 MHz – 1.42 GHz (Up to 2 GHz processors through 3rd-party upgrades.)
Predecessor	Power Macintosh G3
Successor	Power Mac G5
Related articles	PowerBook

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", 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

Supported macOS releases

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		—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a
Mac OS 9			9.0.4	9.1	9.2	9.2.2		Emulation only	9.2.2
10.0 Cheetah					10.0.4	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a
10.1 Puma						10.1.2	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a
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.

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