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Apple Power Macintosh G4 review

7.5

Editors' Rating

Very Good

Typical price:£ 1799

Verdict

The G4s are the fastest Macintoshes Apple has yet built. The 867MHz model offers good performance for a decent price, with a DVD-R/CD-RW SuperDrive in case you want to create your own DVDs... Read Full Review.

Pros

  • Large cache and fast hard drive are great for graphics professionals
  • DVD-R/CD-RW SuperDrive
  • Fast.

Cons

  • Moderate 3D performance
  • Base configuration should have at least 256MB of RAM.

Key Specs

Clock speed: 0.867 GHz
RAM installed: 128 MB
Hard drive size: 60 GB
Graphics processor: nVidia GeForce2 MX
Graphics RAM: 32 MB
Graphics card: nVidia GeForce2 MX
Display diagonal size: 17 in
Case form factor: tower
Operating system: OS 9.2, OS 10.0.4 (dual boot)

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