Yosemite PowerMac and Revision
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The new Yosemite PowerMacs and current iMac revision were
announced with great fanfare at the San Francisco Macworld
in the beginning of January. They are now making their way
into both local and online stores in quantity. We have compiled
this fact sheet which will provide you with a wealth of information
on the new machines and hunted down the current price for
each machine at each of the major online retail outlets. We
hope you find this consumer guide useful in making your purchasing
decisions.
Although the new Yosemite machines retain the traditional
mini-tower form factor they are covered with a white and blue
hard plastic frosting and have four big handles at each corner,
giving them a radically different look and making them easy
to transport. The machines are incredibly easy to get into
(pulling on a latch causes one side of the machine to lever
down) making adding additional SDRAM, PCI cards and internal
drives a snap. Each Yosemite machine includes the same round
mouse and compact keyboard that comes with the iMac. Standard
ports are now USB and, for the first time on the Mac, 400Mbps
Firewire connections. There is one ADB port so if you don't
like the feel of the round mouse you can connect a traditional
one. In the performance/price equation the Yosemite Macs smoke
the previous G3 Macs. They are up to 30% faster in processor
and floating point score, than the previous G3s, about the
same in disk score but blow the first generation of G3s away
in graphics where they are up to one and one-half times the
speed of their predecessors due to the ATI RAGE 128 graphics
accelerator and 16MB of SDRAM (for performance and stats for
each individual machine see below). There are four basic Yosemite
models, a 300Mhz, two 350Mhz -one with DVD and one without
and a 400Mhz model.
The current iMac revision (revision 3) is both a speed bump
and color bump for the machine. It now comes in 5 different
colors; strawberry, lime, tangerine, grape and blueberry.
It also has a bigger hard drive and has been bumped up from
233Mhz to 266Mhz. This has given it a speed boost of approximately
14% in both processor and graphics score and an impressive
47% in disk performance over the revision B iMac
Yosemite G3/400
Processor: G3 (750) @400Mhz
Backside cache: 1MB @ 200Mzh
System bus: 100Mhz
RAM: 128MB SDRAM 1GB Max
VRAM: 16MB SDRAM
Expansion Slots:
3 empty PCI slots running at 33Mhz (64 -bit)
One 66Mhz, 32-bit PCI slot filled with the
ATI RAGE 128 graphics accelerator
Hard Drive: 9GB Ultra2 LVD SCSI with PCI card
CDROM Drive: 24x
Networking: 10/100 Ethernet
Aditional Features:
ATI RAGE 128 accelerated 2D/3D graphics controller
2 USB Ports
2 Firewire Ports
ADB Port
2 Additional Drive Bays
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