| PowerMac 9600/200 Facts at a Glance - Processor: 604e, 200 MHz
- Bus Speed: 50 MHz
- L2 Cache: 512K, Soldered/Non-upgradeable
- Installed RAM: 32MB (*1536 MB Max)
- RAM Slots: 12, 168-pin DIMM
- Min RAM Speed: 70 ns
- Installed VRAM: 4MB (Max 8 MB)
- Drive: 4GB SCSI
- CD Drive: 12X
- Internal Fast SCSI up to 10MBps
- Drive Bays: 2 (5.25")
- Slots: 6 PCI
- Ethernet: AAUI, 10Base-T
- Supported MacOS: 7.5.5 - 9.X
- Introduced: 2-17-97
- Discontinued: 8/97
- Original Price: $3,700
Notes: - *128MB DIMMs can be used, but have not been tested
- Memory capable of interleaving for slight performance improvement
- Shipped with IMS Twin Turbo 128 video card
- One PCI slot occupied by video card
- L2 cache soldered to motherboard, non-upgradable
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12/19/00 The Power Macintosh 9600/200 came out when Apple was facing some stiff competition from clone manufacturers. Comparable systems like the SuperMac S900/200 and PowerTower Pro 200 ran $400 to $1,000 less than the 9600. The clones' uncertain future prompted many to fork out the extra bucks and invest in this workhorse. With the 9600's flip down side, Apple finally showed that they could make a machine that was easy to access. While more expandable than past offerings, Apple fell short of the advances made by others. The Umax S900 offered 4 free drive bays and Power Computing's Power Tower Pro a whopping 7. Compare this to 2 in the more expensive 9600 and you can see why Apple decided to give the clones the axe! On the plus side, when it was released the 9600 was the fastest shipping 604e/200MHz machine available. It edged out its competitors by 5-13% The processor resides on a daughter card for easy replacement. Unfortunately Apple chose to solder the 512K level 2 cache to the motherboard, eliminating this as a potential upgrade. The good news of course is that there are plenty of upgrade options for this machine.... Below you will find the MacBench 4.0 results for the current processor upgrades available for this machine. Results marked in blue indicate that benchmark results were done by us. All other processor card results were provided by the upgrade manufacturer. The bar graphs below express results as a percentage of improvement over the base machine, which receives a score of 100%. Further down the page you will find a table with the actual MacBench score. ** Note that MacBench does not take advantage of the Velocity Engine (AltiVec instructions) of the G4. For AltiVec accelerated applications you can see a 1.5 to 4 times performance improvement over the G3, depending on the application and the functions you are trying to perform. For G4 Application specific scores - Click Here | 
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