PRESS RELEASE January 28, 2002

Digital Powerhouse for Creative Professionals

  • 800-MHz, 933-MHz and dual 1-GHz PowerPC G4 processors with Velocity Engine;
  • ATI Radeon 7500 with 32MB DDR SDRAM or NVIDIA GeForce4 MX with 64MB DDR SDRAM graphics and dual display support in all models;
  • support for up to 1.5GB of PC133 SDRAM;
  • five slots, including four open high-performance 64 bit 33 MHz PCI slots and an 4x AGP slot for graphics;
  • two 400-Mbps FireWire® ports and four 12-Mbps USB ports to connect the latest DV camcorders, printers and storage devices;
  • Mac OS X as the startup operating system providing protected memory, preemptive multitasking, advanced memory management, symmetric multiprocessing and a highly-optimized BSD networking architecture;
  • Apple’s innovative iPhoto digital photo management software, iTunes MP3 software for managing digital music collections and burning standard audio CDs, and iMovie 2 easy-to-use digital video editing software; iDVD 2 software for authoring DVDs is also included in systems with SuperDrive;
  • 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet built-in on the motherboard for accessing fast networks and transferring large files, such as image and digital video files; and
  • three 3.5-inch hard disk drive expansion bays with one pre-installed 7200 rpm Ultra ATA hard drive up to 80GB.

The new Power Mac G4 also offers an exciting suite of creative, productivity and communications applications designed specifically for Mac OS X, including: Ambrosia Software Snapz Pro X, Caffeine Software PixelNhance 1.5, Code Line Communications Art Directors Toolkit for X, Lemke Software GraphicConverter 4.1, Omni Group’s OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner, James Thompson PCalc, FileMaker Pro Trial 5.5, Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0, Earthlink 2.5, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 5.1 and Smith Micro FAXstf X Preview, as well as Apple Developer Tools X.
  • 256K on-chip level 2 cache and 2MB of DDR SDRAM L3 cache per processor;
  • 512MB of PC133 SDRAM memory;
  • NVIDIA GeForce4 MX graphics card and 64MB DDR SDRAM in 4x AGP slot;
  • 80GB Ultra ATA/66 hard disk drive; and
  • SuperDrive combination CD-RW/DVD-R optical drive.

  • 256K on-chip level 2 cache and 2MB of DDR SDRAM L3 cache;
  • 256MB of PC133 SDRAM memory;
  • NVIDIA GeForce4 MX graphics card with 64MB DDR SDRAM in 4x AGP slot;
  • 60GB Ultra ATA/66 7200 rpm hard disk drive; and
  • SuperDrive combination CD-RW/DVD-R optical drive.

  • 256K on-chip level 2 cache;
  • 256MB of PC133 SDRAM memory;
  • ATI Radeon 7500 with 32MB DDR SDRAM in 4x AGP slot;
  • 40GB Ultra ATA/66 7200 rpm hard disk drive; and
  • CD-RW optical drive.

Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, Mac, AirPort, The Apple Store, FireWire, iMovie, iTunes, Mac OS, Power Mac, SuperDrive and Velocity Engine are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Apple. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.