The Power Mac G4 is a work of art and was a series of personal computers that were designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple between 1999 and 2004. They used the PowerPC G4 (PPC74xx) series of microprocessors. They were heralded by Apple to be the first personal supercomputers, reaching speeds of 4 to 20 Gigaflops. They were both the last Macintoshes to boot natively into Classic Mac OS and the first to boot exclusively into Mac OS X. The mirrored doors version is beautiful and classic.

The original Apple Power Mac G4, code name “Yikes!”, was introduced at the Seybold conference in San Francisco on August 31, 1999Have you ever opened a G4 Mirrored Doors tower?  It has a half-dollar sized ring lever, when pulled, lowers the right-side tower panel hinged at the bottom of the tower revealing a beautifully laid-out hardware interior. Expansion cards, hard disk drive bays (3), RAM banks etc. are easy to reach and remove and replace, as is the WiFi Card. It’s so clean looking and 99% silver everything.  The Power Mac G4 tower’s front & rear “carrying” handles, (this tower is very heavy) are made of thick, transparent Lucite-like hardened plastic, which complements the gun-metal gray current Michael Kors hand bag color. 😀

The design Power Mac G4 was updated on January 28, 2002 with 800 MHz, 933 MHz and dual 1 GHz configurations, becoming the first Mac to reach 1 GHz. Again, the low end 800 MHz model did not include any level three cache. The graphics in this series were provided by an nVidia GeForce4 MX card. Some of these models have ATA controllers with 48 bit LBA for hard drives larger than 128 GB. This later series is commonly known as Quicksilver 2002.