Came in optional AV model which includes AV video
card and video in/out
RAM must be installed in pairs
The 8100 family of PowerMacs came in three flavors: a 80Mhz
model, a 100Mhz model and a 110Mhz model. In addition the
80Mhz and 100Mhz models
could be purchased as AV machines which meant that the PDS
slot contained a AV card with 2MB of VRAM rather the standard
PDS video card that came with other models. When they were
introduced, the 8100's were Apple's top of the line machines,
marketed primarily to high-end DTP, graphics, prepress and
multimedia professionals.
The brain of the machines is the
601 PowerPC chip (which was soon to become eclipsed by
the 604 and 603 follow-ons). The 8100/110 sported an enhanced
version of the 601, the 601+, that was smaller, used less
power and ran cooler than the standard 601.
The machines come with 3 NuBus slots, which were somewhat
hamstrung on the two slower machines. Three factors contributed
to throughput that was less than half that of a high end Quadra:
flawed controller circuitry and ROMs and a clock speed that
that did not synchronize well with the 20MHz NuBus. The controller
chip on the 110 model was redesigned making for better performance
and more stability with many high-end NuBus cards.
Installed RAM varies from 8MB to 16MB and in all cases 8MB
of RAM is soldered to the motherboard. RAM must be installed
in pairs and maximum RAM is 264MB. There are 8 RAM slots.
The machines came with 256K of L2 cache. Standard VRAM was
2MB but can be expanded to 4MB. Hard drive sizes range from
250MB to 2GB and all models came with 2X CD-ROM drives. The
8100's tower cases have one free drive bay which can accommodate
1 full height drive or two half height drives. Internal SCSI
support and standard Ethernet are onboard.
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Below you will find the MacBench 4.0 results
for most of the processor upgrades available for this machine.
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for their cards. In other words the speed trials were run
by the manufacturer. For an independent evaluation of these
cards check the Processor
Upgrade Page to see if we have results available. 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
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models
could be purchased as AV machines which meant that the PDS
slot contained a AV card with 2MB of VRAM rather the standard
PDS video card that came with other models. When they were
introduced, the 8100's were Apple's top of the line machines,
marketed primarily to high-end DTP, graphics, prepress and
multimedia professionals. 
For Great Prices On Upgrades 