The twin-engined
Power Mac G4s are supported not only by generous reserves of L2 and L3 cache on each
processor, but also by Mac OS X’s robust foundation, which features multithreading
and symmetric multiprocessing for an additional performance boost.
The Power Mac G4 can be built-to-order to fit any
professional use. You can fill it with 2 GB of high-speed DDR SDRAM, get it with a 4x
SuperDrive that’s twice as fast at burning DVDs, choose up to four internal hard disk
drives up to a mind-boggling 720GB, get unwired with an AirPort Extreme* Card or with a
Bluetooth wireless connectivity module and add scorchingly fast graphics. Every new Power
Mac G4 also gets the benefit of a built-in FireWire 800 port, two FireWire 400 ports, four
USB ports (two on the computer, two on the keyboard) and four full-length 64-bit, 33MHz
PCI slots and Gigabit Ethernet for shooting large files across your LAN at phenomenal
speeds. What’s more, FireWire, PCI expansion and Gigabit Ethernet are integrated
directly into the main system controller, reducing latencies and providing superior I/O
performance. |
Expand your
digital domain
The Apple Display Connector (ADC) makes it a snap to connect your Power Mac G4 to your
choice of three brilliant displays. Combine your G4 with the 17-inch Apple Studio Display
or 20-inch Apple Cinema Display — or the gorgeous 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display
— and you’ll have the perfect environment for creative professionals. While you’re
at it, expand your workspace even farther. The all-digital Apple flat-panel displays are
so unbelievably affordable that you can easily take advantage of the Power Mac G4’s
dual display support. And you can also rejoice in the fact that there are no controls to
adjust and no tweaking required: the all-digital signal between your Power Mac G4 and your
display delivers pristine image quality.
FireWire 800
The new Power Mac G4 features the best built-in FireWire connectivity in the industry
— two 400Mbps (megabits per second) ports and one 800Mbps port. The industry-standard
serial input/output (I/O) technology for high-speed data transfer, FireWire is one of the
fastest peripheral standards ever developed — and now, at 800 megabits per second
(Mbps), it’s faster than ever. Fact is, FireWire 800 doubles the throughput of the
original technology, dramatically increases the maximum distance of FireWire connections
— up to 100 meters — and supports many new types of cabling, making it
indispensable for transferring massive data files and for working with uncompressed
high-definition (HD) video and multiple standard-definition (SD) video streams. And it’s
way faster than USB 2.0.
AirPort Extreme* connects wirelessly at up to
54Mbps
The Power Mac G4 supports AirPort Extreme*, the new wireless networking technology based
on the proposed IEEE 802.11g standard. Just add an AirPort Extreme* Card to the Power Mac
G4 and it can wirelessly connect to an AirPort Extreme* Base Station at speeds up to
54Mbps. That’s nearly five times as fast as the data transfer rates of the current
802.11b wireless standard.
Sync with Bluetooth
The Power Mac G4 is Bluetooth-enabled and therein lies another big advantage. Like AirPort
Extreme*, Bluetooth connects digital devices wirelessly. Operating within a much shorter
range than AirPort, it enables wireless data transfers between a rapidly growing list of
Bluetooth-savvy products. Using iSync, for instance, you can use Bluetooth to synchronize
your personal information between your Power Mac G4, your PowerBook G4, your mobile phone
and your Palm OS-based handheld
Off-the-charts graphics
The Power Mac G4 features 4x AGP graphics and your choice of four fearsomely fast graphics
cards that turn on the afterburners. The ATI Radeon 9000 (1.42GHz and 1.25GHz
dual-processor configurations) and the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX (standard on the 1GHz model)
pump out billions of textured pixels to kick your projects into overdrive. And if you want
to push those hot new Quake engine-based 3D games — ahem, we mean heavy-duty 3D
graphics — into the ultra fast realm, may we suggest the built-to-order options of a
NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti graphics card or the hot new ATI Radeon 9700? Both feature a whopping
128MB of DDR SDRAM.
Cache advance
The Power Mac G4s lightning fast processor speeds get an additional boost with an advanced
cache memory architecture that provides ultra fast, dedicated memory with massively
enhanced throughput. Accessing data from main memory is significantly faster than
accessing data from the hard drive and the Power Mac G4’s system architecture takes
this one step further with an even faster level of memory called L3 cache. The L3 cache
uses up to 2MB of high speed, Double Data Rate (DDR) SRAM, boosting processor function by
providing fast access to data and application code at up to 4 gigabytes per second (GBps).
* Subject to availability |
