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A Power Macintosh 6400 / Performa 6400
Power Macintosh 6400 / Performa 6400
Manufacturer Apple Computer
Introduced 7 August 1996
Discontinued 1 August 1997
Price US$2400, 2800
CPU PowerPC 603e, 180 or 200 MHz
RAM 16 MiB, expandable to 136 MiB, 70 ns 168-pin DIMM
OS System 7.5.3

The Power Macintosh 6400 (Codenames: "InstaTower", "Alchemy", "Hacksaw"; also sold under variations of the name Performa 6400) is a mid-range personal computer that is a part of Apple Computer's Power Macintosh and Macintosh Performa series of Macintosh computers. Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC processors built A mebibyte (a contraction of me ga bi nary byte) is a unit of Information or Computer storage, abbreviated MiB. System 7 (codenamed "Big Bang" and sometimes called Mac OS 7) is a single-user Graphical user interface -based Operating system for Macintosh A personal computer ( PC) is any Computer whose original sales price size and capabilities make it useful for individuals and which is intended to be operated Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a line of Apple Macintosh Workstation -class Personal computers based on various models of PowerPC The Macintosh Performa series was Apple Computer 's Consumer product family of Apple Macintosh Personal computers from 1992 until 1997 when the Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc The two Performa variants were introduced in August 1996, while the Power Macintosh variant arrived two months later. They were discontinued in favor of the uniformly named Power Macintosh 6500 in August 1997, ending the Performa brand. The Power Macintosh 6500 (Codename "Gazelle" is a mid-range Desktop computer in Apple Computer 's Power Macintosh series

The 6400 shares its logic board with the Power Macintosh 5400, only without an integrated monitor. The Power Macintosh 5400 series (also sold under variations of the name Performa 5400 and Power Macintosh 5400 LC) is a range of lower midrange Personal computers Its new "InstaTower“ case, however, features an integrated subwoofer. A subwoofer is a Woofer, or a complete Loudspeaker dedicated to the reproduction of bass audio frequencies, from perhaps 150 Hz down The Performa 6360 uses the same logic board in a Power Macintosh 6200-style desktop case. The Power Macintosh 6200 (Codename "Crusader" / "Elixir" also sold under variations of the name Performa 6200, Performa 6300 and Power Macintosh The Power Macintosh 6200 (Codename "Crusader" / "Elixir" also sold under variations of the name Performa 6200, Performa 6300 and Power Macintosh The 5400/6400 is generally believed to be superior to its 6200/5200 predecessors, since the issues that plagued those models had been resolved by then. [1]

All 6400 series computers used a PowerPC 603e processor. PowerPC is a RISC Instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple – IBM – Motorola alliance known as AIM This central processing unit (CPU) was soldered to the computer's "Alchemy" main logic board and cooled by a fanless heat-sink. Though initially considered non-upgradable, CPU upgrades did come to market that overrode the fixed CPU by use of the Level 2 cache slot. [2]

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Screenshots

Image:Performa 6400 boot.png
The Macintosh Performa 6400 booting into Mac OS 8. 1

Models

References

  1. ^ Low End Mac: Road Apples - Power Mac x200 series
  2. ^ The 6400 Zone - L2 G3 Specs Comparison

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