[C.A.T.S. CEO]

Hello

I am going to make a collage of all the ground breaking power macs on a poster borad.

I was going to ask what power macs were the best.

please post pics, urls

thanks

[residentEvil]

well, start here:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/index.html

[Gossamer]

and here

[sek929]

You should include the 733 Quicksilver.

The 733 proc. went from the top-end to the low end in one model change (sure it didn't have the L3 cache, but who cares)

I decided to buy one within seconds of the news.

[KeyLimePi]

The Power Mac 7500. The first Mac with PCI architecture, it sported an easy-open case with a removable daughtercard and extra drivebay. Graced the cover of MacWorld Magazine under the headline "Dream Machine."

[SirCastor]

The Sawtooth, Arguably the longest surviving upgradable product Apple has made..

[Lateralus]

Power Macintosh 8100. The high-end model of the first PowerPC line.

Power Mactinosh 9500. The high-end model of the second PowerPC line. Introduced PCI to the Mac. Still the most expandable Mac ever made.

Power Macintosh 9600. Introduced stupidly-easy accessibility to the Power Macintosh line with its fold apart case.

Power Macintosh G3 MiniTower. The first G3 powered machine and the first machine Apple introduced that would end up supporting OS X.

Power Mac G3, B&W. Introduced the awesome El Capitan case.

Power Mac G4, Sawtooth. The viable long-term ownership Mac ever made.

Power Mac G4, QuickSilver. I have no particular love for the QuickSilver, since the only thing new about it was a sleeker looking case. Not exactly noteworthy but everybody else seems to love it for some reason...

Power Mac G4, MDD. The single largest overhaul of the G4 Power Mac line and the most expandable. Introduced DDR RAM to the Mac desktop as well.

Power Mac G5. The last of the PowerPC family.

[wvx]

I vote Sawtooth.

A friend of mine has an original 350 MHz G4 Sawtooth that she uses with Final Cut Pro under OS X and it's not slow at all crazy. I have a 1GHz upgraded Digital Audio G4 which still rocks though I really really want a MacBook or MacBook Pro.

How about the PowerMac 8500? First tower PCI machine. Very fast but horrible to upgrade. You had to remove the logic board to upgrade the RAM. I had to troubleshoot bad RAM on this machine and it's a nightmare. But it was a huge step up from the previous generation PowerMacs, like the 8100.

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by wvx

A friend of mine has an original 350 MHz G4 Sawtooth that she uses with Final Cut Pro under OS X and it's not slow at all crazy.

I'm guessing you've never used FCP on a Quad G5 then? My friend has a 350MHz sawtooth that he's upgraded to 1.2GHz or so. I hate to break it to you, but it's still slow.

[sek929]

Originally Posted by Lateralus

Power Mac G3, B&W. Introduced the awesome El Capitan case.

Power Mac G4, QuickSilver. I have no particular love for the QuickSilver, since the only thing new about it was a sleeker looking case. Not exactly noteworthy but everybody else seems to love it for some reason...

I'll agree with the B&W, my dad's 300mhz runs 10.3.9 fine, with only noticable slowdowns in Firefox mainly.

But I think the Quicksilver entry model was one of the few times that the high-end proc. of the previous model (the 733 with L3 cache) suddenly became in the comsumer PowerMac Model.

Since I've bought it I've put 1.5GB RAM, swaped the CD-RW for the Pioneer DVR-109, added an 80GB HDD (total of 135GB). I'm no pro user, but several semesters of Final Cut, Lightwave, Flash MX, etc...were completed solely on my Quicksilver and not the school's dual G5s.

Just my .02

[G4ME]

I think the 9600 is the cream of the crop, TONS TONS of expandability, first of the real Big Macs.

Plus how could we for get about the Cube?

But I am still partial to my Dual 500, three HDs in it, 2 free PCI slots, thinking about a DVD-RW,
over a gig of ram gigabit eithernet.

So far I haven't run into anything that I can't do with it*


*well that i want to do with it

[molala]

Another vote for the 9600, it was a great machine. Very expandable and upgradeable, you could open the case very easily. 350MHz 604e was faster than some of the G3's released shortly after it.

The first Mac I owned was a PowerPC Performa 6400, a tower that looks like a loaf of bread . It was Apple's consumer line, had a 603e processor. But it had IR on the front and a built-in subwoofer. I had a TV tuner in there and could make telephone calls on the Geoport modem.

[christ]

If we count all macs, then the IIFX was a real monster.

Powermacs - My Dual 533 was impressive (the only dual at the time, outperformed the 733 on photoshop) when it was released, and is still performing so well that I can't justify replacing it. (Although I have tried - God knows I have tried)

[bstone]

Originally Posted by SirCastor

The Sawtooth, Arguably the longest surviving upgradable product Apple has made..

I agree. Mine is still running with a bunch of upgrades (proc, HD, ATA card, PCI WIFI, DVD-RW). It's Speedy™ and Snappy™.

[Oozinator]

My quicksilver is faaasssssssstttttt. Just not next to high end g5s.

[olePigeon]

6100/66
8600/300
9600/350
PowerMac G3 "B&W"
PowerMac G4 "Digital Audio" (Dual 533)
G4 Cube
PowerMac G5

http://www.apple-history.com/ <-- Has pictures and tech specs.

[©öñFü$íóÑ]

PowerMac 6100........

The -FIRST- PowerMac....... period. Yeah.... i'm biased