Introducing the Power Mac G4 Quicksilver

The Power Macintosh G4 introduction video. It was shown by Steve Jobs at the MacWorld New York keynote in July 2001 and also on apple.com presenting the new G4.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Power
• Macintosh
• Mac
• G4
• Quicksilver
• Introduction
• MacWorld
• New
• York
• NY
• Keynote
• Apple
• 2001
• July

[grafight]

The quicksilver and the MDD are still the best computers in the world.

With software from then they still smoke all else. They can boot in OS9 or X.

Photoshop and Illustrator in OS9? Super fast!.

Features? most are just shortcuts to stuff you could do already and just bloat the software. Old versions are much cleaner and faster. PDF, JPG, or EPS still work the same. Used MAC stores can max out the RAM, add new drives, etc. You end up with a super-machine for little money.

[jamespsullivan84]

What a great machine! We use a 2003 Quicksilver with dual 1 GHz G4s and 1.5 Gigs of RAM as a file/web/open directory server. It runs Leopard Server amazingly fast! What kind of pc-computer made in 2003 would run Win Server 2008 in a comparable efficient and reliable fashion?

The G4 was a really great chip, much mor efficient then the x86 based processors of it's time. What a pity IBM and Motorola screwed up delivering power efficient G5s as successors in a reasonable timeframe...

[boomblaster9470]

@grafight The only problem is that you can't watch Youtube HD on it

[KleenezeDon]

@ThePhoneUpdate it was the battery only :)

[86123maxxi]

The original spec for the G4 was that it had only 4 pipeline stages, although, with Quicksilver, they changed it to 7 as it was too difficult to boost the MHz without overly affecting the yield of the G4 chips. Thats why the original 500 MHz G4 was delayed , due to a very low yield of working chips for every production run.

[techyknowsbest]

im on my g4 mdd love it

[Fender7083]

I'm getin' one tomorrow to add to my obsolete collection

[86123maxxi]

@Dontpickmelast101 The specs aren't that horrible , the dual 800s develop enough power to trump the 1.6GHz G5 tower and the pinnacle of the Power Mac G4s, the MDD dual 1.42GHz can trump even the 2006 Core Solo Mac Mini, although the Core Duo smokes it totally.

[Dontpickmelast101]

i want this computer but its specs are horrible

[CaptainDarren82]

@jamespsullivan84 The G4 chip was great, but eventually I caught up with the G5, which is even faster. Although a successful chip, 2 problems with it. One, it consumes too much power. and 2, they never got it into laptops! My G5 Mid 2004 replaced my AGP Sawtooth G4 because I am more serious about web services nowadays. I can use this thing to run 1080HD youtube and it works fine!

[vajksziget7a]

@shomosnicholas5 You are an idiot.The powerpc g4 is blow away every pentium 3 or 4.What's count is not the Mhz or Ghz.What's really important is the pipeline stages.the g4 has 7 pipline stages.The pentium 4 at 1.5 Ghz has 20.The pentium 3 well... I don't want to think about that.If you have smaller number of stages the processor is gonna be faster.Well, you see the difference between the two numbers.