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Tuesday 1st July 2003

Revamped Power Mac G4s support OS9 11:17AM, Tuesday 1st July 2003

Amid all the excitement - if that's the right word - surrounding last week's unveiling of the new Power Mac G5, changes to the Power Mac G4 line-up have gone unnoticed.

Apple has pared the range down from four to three machines and made all the machines capable of booting into both Mac OS 9 and X. It has also changed certain aspects of the spec, dropping both FireWire 800 and the SuperDrive options.

The entry-level 'Fast' model has a single 1.25GHz processor with 1MB of L3 cache,



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The 'Faster' machine has a single 1.25GHz processor with 1MB of L3 cache but the similarity ends there; instead you get 512MB of DDR333 RAM, a 160GB hard drive, a DVD-R/CD-RW drive and nVidia GeForce 4 graphics with 128 MB of DDR video memory, all for Ł1,489.

The top-of-the-range the 'Ultimate' model has dual 1.25GHz processors each with 2MB of L3 cache, 2GB of DDR333 RAM, two 160GB hard drives, a DVD-R/CD-RW drive and nVidia GeForce 4 graphics with 128MB of DDR video memory for Ł2,549.

Further details are available from the Apple Store.

Simon Aughton

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