The Power Mac 7200 made its debut in the summer of 1995 as
part of the second generation of Power Macs, which also included
the 7500, 8500 & 9500. This generation of Power Macs turned
its back on the NuBus slot, in favor of 3 PCI slots in each
model, and replaced SIMMs for DIMM type memory.
The 7200/90 was the entry level model of the Power Mac line
and was aimed primarily at the business, home office and consumer
markets. Also released at the same time was a 75MHz version
of the 7200.
A few corners were cut to keep costs down. The 7200s accepted
less RAM than their brethren, the CPU was not replaceable
and the cache & RAM busses were only 64-bits wide (as
opposed to 128)
In fact on the 7500/90 no L2 cache was installed, though
the option to add one was available. Adding a L2 cache can
significantly improve the processing performance of the machine.
This machine came with 1 MB of VRAM which can be upgraded
to 4 MB for 24-bit color at 1024 x 768 resolution. (The 75MHz
version of this Power Mac could only be upgraded to 2 MB of
VRAM)
Though the 601 PowerPC processor is soldered to the motherboard
Sonnet has engineered an upgrade for this machine that utilizes
one of the PCI slots.
The 7200 was considered inexpensive at the time and sold
very well.
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the G3, depending on the application and the functions you
are trying to perform.
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