Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio): What‘s New and Different

This article describes the new features of the Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) computer.
The Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) computer has these differences from earlier Power Mac G4 models:

Microprocessor clock speed: The microprocessor clock frequency is either 466 or 533 MHz.

Memory caches: The G4 microprocessor in the 466 MHz and 533 MHz configurations has an external 1 MB level 2 cache.

Bus clock speed: The system bus and the memory bus have a clock frequency of 133 MHz.

PCI card expansion slots: The Power Mac G4 computer has four expansion slots for PCI cards in addition to the AGP video card slot.

Memory Expansion slots: There are three slots for PC-133 memory DIMMs. Refer to article 58763 "Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio): Requires PC-133 Memory" for more information.

Optical drive: The computer comes with a built-in optical media drive, either CD-RW or DVD-R/CD-RW. A DVD-ROM drive is also available.

Zip drive: All configurations can accept an optional 250 MB ATAPI Zip drive.

Graphics card: The graphics card in the AGP-4x slot is either an ATI RAGE 128 Pro or NVIDIA GeForce2 MX.

Sound: The computer has a built-in speaker, a headphone sound output port, and an Apple speaker sound output port. More information is available in article 58764: "Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio): Sound Output Ports".

Published Date: Oct 7, 2016