PowerPC G4 is a designation formerly used by Apple to describe a fourth generation of 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors. Apple has applied this name to various...
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part of the Power Macintosh line. Built around the PowerPC G4 series of microprocessors, the Power Mac G4 was marketed by Apple as the first "personal supercomputers"...
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2006 as part of its PowerBook line of notebooks. The PowerBook G4 runs on the RISC-based PowerPC G4 processor, designed by the AIM (Apple/IBM/Motorola)...
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comprised of a hemispheric base that holds the components, including a PowerPC G4 processor, and a flatscreen liquid-crystal display (LCD) mounted above...
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grille at the top of the case. The base model shipped with a 450 MHz PowerPC G4 processor, 64 MB of random-access memory (RAM), 20 GB hard drive, and...
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Mac OS 9 (category PowerPC operating systems)
management unit. The PearPC PowerPC emulator does not support Mac OS 9. QEMU has experimental support for running Mac OS 9 using PowerPC G4 emulation. Beginning...
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term "G4" for the 7400 family introduced in 1998 and the Power Mac G4 in 1999. At the time the G4 was launched, Motorola categorized all their PowerPC models...
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floating-point unit. The PowerPC 601 was the first Mac processor to support the 32-bit PowerPC instruction set architecture. The PowerPC 604e was the first...
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the PowerPC G4 processor, it was billed as "the first supercomputer you can actually take with you on an airplane." It was lighter than most PC based...
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Mac Mini (redirect from G4 Mac Mini)
a Mac. In January 2005, the original Mac Mini was introduced with the PowerPC G4 CPU. In February 2006, Apple switched to an Intel Core Solo CPU. A thinner...
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PowerPC 970, PowerPC 970FX, and PowerPC 970MP are 64-bit PowerPC CPUs from IBM introduced in 2002. Apple branded the 970 as PowerPC G5 for its Power Mac...
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formats PowerPC G4, a type of microprocessor by Freescale used by Apple Power Mac G4, a series of personal computers made by Apple Inc in July 1999 PowerBook...
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exception of the Power Mac G4 Cube in 2000 and 2001. Apple named Power Macintosh models from this period after the first pre-PowerPC model of Macintosh...
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dual-core PowerPC G4 – The Register.com MPC5121e: Automotive-Qualified Multi-Core Microprocessor for Telematics and Beyond - Power.org Power Architecture™...
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G4, but replaced the PowerPC G4 chips with Intel Core Duo processors, added an iSight webcam, and introduced the MagSafe power connector. The 15-inch...
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CherryOS (category PowerPC emulators)
CherryOS was a PowerPC G4 processor emulator for x86 Microsoft Windows platforms, which allowed various Apple Inc. programs to be operated on Windows XP...
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the PowerPC G3 (PPC740/750) series of microprocessors, and was marketed as the fastest laptop in the world for its entire production run. The PowerBook...
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replacement for the PowerBook line. The first MacBook Pro used an aluminum chassis similar to the PowerBook G4, but replaced the PowerPC G4 chips with Intel...
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The PowerPC 7xx is a family of third generation 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors designed and manufactured by IBM and Motorola (spun off as Freescale Semiconductor...
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Macintosh clones for more than two years. The Power Macintosh G3 is named for its third-generation PowerPC chip, and introduced a super fast and large Level...
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The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC processors built. They were designed at the Somerset facility in Austin, Texas, jointly funded and...
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would easily connect to the Internet. The second major revision, the iMac G4, moved a design with a hemispherical base containing all the main components...
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MagiC (section PowerPC and Mac OS X)
projects), to reach high emulation speeds on machines with PowerPC processors (typically PowerPC G4 and G5 Macs). MagiC-Mac X was updated in 2004 and 2009...
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Scott Stevens derived the name from the AltiVec Velocity Engine in the PowerPC G4 chip. Some common types of applications that use Velocity are: Web applications:...
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developed at the request of animation company Pixar. A Power Macintosh with at least a 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processor is required for real-time playback of half-resolution...
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cache of the Intel 486 and in many processors in the PowerPC family, such as Freescale's PowerPC G4 used by Apple Computer. The algorithm works as follows:...
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Intel: Xeon mobile, Core, Pentium, and Celeron PowerPC Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor made PowerPC G4 processors for the pre-Intel Apple Computer notebooks...
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