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Apple Power Macintosh G4 (M7232LL/A) Mac Desktop
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Price Range $79 - $79 Featured Merchants
Product Description Buckle up - the Power Mac G4 is here. It features the revolutionary PowerPC G4 with Velocity Engine, which crunches multimedia data at blazing-fast speeds. The Velocity Engine uses true independent vector processing - a technology originally developed for use in scientific supercomputers. It gives you the power you need to create and manipulate even the most complex graphics files. The result is unprecedented productivity for creative professionals - in the arts as well as the sciences.??Apple designed the Power Mac G4 for creative professionals who use computers as the pivotal tool of their trade, setting the pace of their work, their productivity, even their success. With its blazing-fast speed and convention-crushing design, the Power Mac G4 picks up where the best-selling Power Macintosh G3 left off. The Power Mac G4 is so powerful that its speed is measured in gigaflops, or billions of floating-point operations per second, just like supercomputers. At the heart of this system ...
Fast, Formidable, and Frail
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Written By quasar Date Written Sep 23 2002 Summary I find it very interesting that this exact configuration is in the database because it is almost but not quite a factory preset configuration of the top end PowerMac of early 2000. That machine had a 450MHz G4 processor, had a DVD-RAM drive, had a 27GB... Strength easy access to drives and memory slots, well-labelled ports, versatile Weakness bulky, not the latest and greatest, small keyboard, failures after only two years Bottom Line Once this was the latest and greatest; it's now a bit behind the times. For the $500 or so it now costs, this machine is still a bargain. Nice computer but $Cha-ching!
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Written By Gr8ful Date Written May 20 2000 Summary The Apple G4 series of Power PCs are among the highest quality computers to date. The 500MHz Motorola processor is astoundingly fast with 162 built in SIMD instructions (similar to Pentium III SIMD) and 256MB of PC100 SDRAM (with support up to 1.5GB) is... Strength Awesome speed, quality parts, excellent design Weakness Ridiculously way overpriced Cube thoughts; August 2000 New Mac Keyboard & Mouse
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Written By daviddennis Date Written Aug 11 2000 Summary This is not a complete review of the G4, but I thought my impression of the new Mac keyboard and mouse might be of interest. Strength The mouse is fantastic ... Weakness but the keyboard is still cheesy. Are two processors really better than one?
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Written By mazpaz Date Written Aug 07 2000 Summary Introduction Strength FAST, relatively inexpensive, new optical mouse Weakness No major problems An Ordinary Person's Realistic Review
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Written By anyamashiro Date Written May 16 2000 Summary After reading all the glowing opinions here about the G4's, I decided to take the plunge and buy one. Since I already had a Mac, I figured I could use my old monitor and printer and save a little money that way, justifying the higher cost of buying the... Strength fast, great graphics, lots of memory and space, great tech support Weakness connecting old equipment hassles, little software, no printed manuals Bottom Line This is a great computer, but not a perfect one. American Beauty
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Written By za9ra22 Date Written Jan 09 2003 Summary More than enough has been written about these rather venerable G4 systems in the last 2 years or so, why enter the fray with a new review? The answer is that after a couple of years of dedicated PC use and feeling like I was being obstructed every time I... Strength Fast and very stable. Easy to work with and on. Weakness Age Bottom Line Fast, dependable and solid workhorse for a variety of creative uses. The G-four-ces are incredible- be blown out of your chair!
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Written By lyzzie Date Written Dec 06 1999 Summary if you truely want the most powerful, expandable, advanced, and attractive Macintosh available, the high end G4 is for you, assuming you've got about 6500 to use. Although yes, it is very overpriced, the G4 is 100-200% faster than the FASTEST pentium... Strength LUCIOUS, POWERFUL, ADVANCED, EXPANDABLE, SEEEEXY Weakness very expensive An engineering masterpiece.
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Written By john_brendler Date Written Jul 15 2000 Summary Update Note: Strength Powerful, expandable, and beautiful. Weakness 100 MHz bus speed The best thing out there
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Written By eljuanbobo Date Written May 21 2000 Summary Apple’s resurgence was not only one of a series of powerful processors, but one of design. Beige was out, Blue was in. And now it’s graphite. I have used both Windows NT based systems and Macintosh for a variety of video post, 3d modeling/rendering, web... Strength big memory, lots of space, kickin graphics, and a sexy machine. Weakness only 3 PCI slots, needs external speakers Love my G4, but my boss is being screwwed by Apples poor
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Written By dean0088 Date Written Jul 06 2000 Summary First let me start by saying, I am an Apple user and a PC hater. I use both platforms so I can justify hating the PC. I am a Graphic Designer and use both a B# (Blue and White) at home and a G4 at the office. I love Apple computer and everything that... Strength Great computer Weakness Poor, Poor Customer Service  |
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