Apple Power Mac G4 - PPC G4 1.42 GHz

The new Power Mac G4 combines rock solid engineering reflective of the full-throttle Xserve architecture with new technologies for massively enhanced output and connectivity. This turbocharged Power Mac rips through digital video and 3D projects faster than Pentiums can say "uncle". The twin-engined Power Mac G4s are supported not only by generous reserves of L2 and L3 cache on each processor, but also by Mac OS X's robust foundation, which features multithreading and symmetric multiprocessing for an additional performance boost. The Power Mac G4 can be built-to-order to fit any professional use. You can fill it with 2 GB of high-speed DDR SDRAM, get it with a 4x SuperDrive that's twice as fast at burning DVDs, choose up to four internal hard disk drives up to a mind-boggling 720GB, get unwired with an AirPort Extreme Card or with a Bluetooth wireless connectivity module and add scorchingly fast graphics. Every new Power Mac G4 also gets the benefit of a built-in FireWire 800 port, two FireWire 400 ports, four USB ports (two on the computer, two on the keyboard) and four full-length 64-bit, 33MHz PCI slots and Gigabit Ethernet for shooting large files across your LAN at phenomenal speeds. What's more, FireWire, PCI expansion and Gigabit Ethernet are integrated directly into the main system controller, reducing latencies and providing superior I/O performance. The Apple Display Connector (ADC) makes it a snap to connect your Power Mac G4 to your choice of three brilliant displays. Combine your G4 with the 17-inch Apple Studio Display or 20-inch Apple Cinema Display - or the gorgeous 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display - and you'll have the perfect environment for creative professionals. While you're at it, expand your workspace even farther. The all-digital Apple flat-panel displays are so unbelievably affordable that you can easily take advantage of the Power Mac G4's dual display support. And you can also rejoice in the fact that there are no controls to adjust and no tweaking required: the all-digital signal between your Power Mac G4 and your display delivers pristine image quality. The new Power Mac G4 features the best built-in FireWire connectivity in the industry - two 400Mbps (megabits per second) ports and one 800Mbps port. The industry-standard serial input/output (I/O) technology for high-speed data transfer, FireWire is one of the fastest peripheral standards ever developed - and now, at 800 megabits per second (Mbps), it's faster than ever. Fact is, FireWire 800 doubles the throughput of the original technology, dramatically increases the maximum distance of FireWire connections - up to 100 meters - and supports many new types of cabling, making it indispensable for transferring massive data files and for working with uncompressed high-definition (HD) video and multiple standard-definition (SD) video streams. And it's way faster than USB 2.0. The Power Mac G4 supports AirPort Extreme, the new wireless networking technology based on the proposed IEEE 802.11g standard. Just add an AirPort Extreme Card to the Power Mac G4 and it can wirelessly connect to an AirPort Extreme Base Station at speeds up to 54Mbps. That's nearly five times as fast as the data transfer rates of the current 802.11b wireless standard. The Power Mac G4 is Bluetooth-ready, which is another big advantage. Like AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth connects digital devices wirelessly. Operating within a much shorter range than AirPort Extreme, it enables wireless data transfers between a rapidly growing list of Bluetooth-savvy products. Using iSync, for instance, you can use Bluetooth to synchronize your personal information between your Power Mac G4, your PowerBook G4, your mobile phone and your Palm OS-based handheld. Interested in getting Bluetooth capability for your Power Mac G4? The easiest way to do it is to have the Bluetooth module built in at the time you order your system. If you decide after purchase that you want Bluetooth capability, you'll need to get an external Bluetooth adapter. The Power Mac G4 features 4x AGP graphics and your choice of four fearsomely fast graphics cards that turn on the afterburners. The Power Mac G4's lightning fast processor speeds get an additional boost with an advanced cache memory architecture that provides ultra fast, dedicated memory with massively enhanced throughput. Accessing data from main memory is significantly faster than accessing data from the hard drive and the Power Mac G4's system architecture takes this one step further with an even faster level of memory called L3 cache. The L3 cache uses up to 2MB of high speed, Double Data Rate (DDR) SRAM, boosting processor function by providing fast access to data and application code at up to 4 gigabytes per second (GBps).