Apple boasted that Mac OS X was built for multi-processor systems, and that the G4 was actually faster than the Pentium III CPU from Intel, despite running at half the clock speed. Prices ranged from ...

Power Mac models were designated first with numbers from 5200 to 9700 and then G3, G4 and G5. What seems paltry today, the first Power Macs came with 8MB of RAM and used the 601 PowerPC CPU chip ...