The Inside Scoop On The Gigahertz Power Mac
- Up Close And Personal - A Pictorial Review
February
13, 2002
The other day we series of pictures
detailing the outside look and features of the new G4 Tower
machines. Today we take a look inside. The internal components
of these computers are laid out in a nice, uncluttered way.
Everything is very identifiable, uncomplicated, and easy to
access. The most distinguishing feature of the motherboard
is the hefty heatsink, which dominates the logic board like
a skyscraper complex dominating an electronic metropolis.
Without further ado, we present and insider's look at the
new G4 Power Macs ....
Easy access is the hallmark of Apple's
Professional Towers. Lift up one latch and the whole
side levers down displaying the cleanly laid out innards
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All the Towers have the same layout. The components
are standardized on the needs of the most demanding
configuration. The monster heatsink may not be needed
for the 800 MHz Tower but it is on the Dual Gigahertz
machine. So all the Tower's get one.
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Looking down from the top. In the upper
left corner is the Airport housing and slot. Next to
it is the internal modem. In the upper right are the
four PCI slots and down in front is the processor covered
by the humongous heatsink
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Looking in at the main body of the machine you see
the installed ATA hard drive that comes with the machine
(lower right). There are two more free hard drive bays.
In the upper left is the SuperDrive
.
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The hard drive in the Dual Gigahertz machine
is a 80 GB Seagate ATA Barracuda
IV. The drive turns at 7200 RPM and has an up to
100-Mbyte/sec burst transfer rate, according to Seagate
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Four PCI slots have become standard fair
on Apple Towers. Theses slots weigh in at 64-bit 33MHz
and provide up to 215 megabytes per second throughput,
according to Apple.
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This is a close-up of the Airport housing
and slot. To the right (with the red lettering) is the
internal 56K V.90 modem
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This is the graphics
card seated in the AGP 4X slot. The graphics card
on the Gigahertz machine and the 933 MHz machine, is
the NVIDIA GeForce4
MX graphics card with 64MB of DDR SDRAM and ADC and
VGA connectors. The 800 MHz machine has the ATI
Radeon 7500 with 32MB of DDR memory.
The NVIDIA GeForce4
Ti graphics processing unit can be added as a build-to-order
option
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There are three fans in these Tower machines.
Here in the upper middle is the housing that funnels
air onto the processor heatsink
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