The Power Mac G5 is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 2003 to 2006 as part of the Power Mac series. When introduced, it was the most powerful computer in Apple's Macintosh lineup, and was marketed by the company as the world's first 64-bit desktop computer.[1] It was also the first desktop computer from Apple to use an anodized aluminum alloy enclosure, and one of only three computers in Apple's lineup to utilize the PowerPC 970 CPU, the others being the iMac G5 and the Xserve G5.
Three generations of Power Mac G5 were released before it was discontinued as part of the Mac transition to Intel processors, making way for its replacement, the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro retained a variation of the G5's enclosure design for seven more years, making it among the longest-lived designs in Apple's history.[2]
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The PowerMacG5 is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 2003 to 2006 as part of the PowerMac series...
in 2002. Apple branded the 970 as PowerPC G5 for its Power MacG5. Having created the PowerPC architecture in the early 1990s via the AIM alliance, the...
2004 Mac Mini, launched January 11, 2005 Polycarbonate iMac (replacing the iMacG5) launched January 10, 2006 Mac Pro (replacing the PowerMacG5) launched...
Woodcrest processors and a rectangular tower case carried over from the PowerMacG5. It was updated on April 4, 2007, by a dual quad-core Xeon Clovertown...
its enclosure were retired with the introduction of the PowerMacG5. The original PowerMac G4 was introduced at the Seybold conference in San Francisco...
support for PowerPC G5 processors on Mac OS 9 (Mac OS 9 only supports G3 and G4 processors as of Mac OS 9.2.2). Therefore, those Macs can only run Mac OS 9 under...
PowerMac with a processor from IBM's PowerPC G5 product line, the first personal computer to feature a 64-bit processor. He promised a 3 GHz Power Mac...
builds were released for the first PowerPC G5 systems released by Apple. Jaguar introduced many new features to Mac OS X, which are still supported to...
processor over 1 GHz. The PowerPC 970 ("G5") was the first 64-bit Mac processor. The PowerPC 970MP was the first dual-core Mac processor and the first to...
ADC interface was the single processor PowerMacG5 introduced in October 2004. This single processor PowerMacG5 was discontinued soon after in June 2005...
groundwork for the aluminum PowerBook G4, the MacBook Pro, the PowerMacG5, the flat-screen iMac, the Xserve, and the Mac mini. In a review, Macworld's...
PowerMacG5, iBook G4, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Pro, Mac Mini, Xserve, Xserve G5, Xserve RAID, Macintosh Server G4, and later eMac models...
the PowerMac G3 and later the PowerMac G4, while the second revisions were designed to match the aluminum aesthetics of the PowerMacG5 and PowerBook...
computer by Apple Power MacG5, Apple's marketing name for models of the Power Macintosh which contain the IBM PowerPC 970 CPU G5, former name for G6 (EU)...
new 'Unified' theme, and improved support for 64-bit addressing on PowerMac G5s. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger also had a number of additional features that Microsoft...
any license restrictions, known as Quartz.[citation needed] 1.↑ The PowerMacG5 had special Jaguar builds. 2.↑ Tiger did not support 64-bit GUI applications...
in late 2004 with the iMacG5 and PowerMacG5 series computers. It manages the functions previously governed by the PMU (Power Management Unit) as well...
was continued in 2021 with macOS 12 Monterey, 2022 with macOS 13 Ventura, and 2023 with macOS 14 Sonoma. 1.↑ The PowerMacG5 had special Jaguar builds...
chipsets. HyperTransport has also been used by IBM and Apple for the PowerMacG5 machines, as well as a number of modern MIPS systems. The current specification...
arm attached to it. The third and fourth major revisions, the iMacG5 and the Intel iMac respectively, placed all the components immediately behind the...
GB DDR2 RAM, 160 GB SATA hard disk drive, and optical disk drive in a PowerMacG5 case slightly modified with an altered cooling system. Connectivity included...
both open and closed architectures. The Mac mini and Compact Macintosh are closed; the Macintosh II and PowerMacG5 are open. Most desktop PCs are open architecture...
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