Apple Power Macintosh G4 Base

Pros: Fast, sleek, and very cool
Cons: Skimpy on details, like speaker, keyboard, & mouse

I have been a Mac user for about 15 years, and although I still use my G3, recently bought a G4 dual processor Power Mac for more demanding video and graphic applications.

I opted to add an additional 128 RAM to the existing 256, and got the...

Pros: fast, stylish, powerful
Cons: connectivity with older hardware

The new G4 takes Apple's style revolution one step further -- applying the innovative designs that made the iMac a must for dorm rooms, the G4 is a sleek addition to the most professional desktop.

I ordered my G4 straight from Apple, which...

Pros: Fast graphics, decent price, nice colors
Cons: no standard AV I/O, proprietary bus system

OK. Yall might bash me for writing this but oh well. This new system is definitely pretty and has the sleekest unpacking setup I have ever set up. But this is where it rather ends. If you leave the system alone and not try to make it do all the things a...

Pros: The best personal machine out there.
Cons: NONE

My company purchases many different machines for our tasks at hand. From PDA's to Application servers so I have to use all flavors of machines. So having said that ask me what I have in my office... A 533MHz Power Mac G4.
This handles all my...

Pros: Good for graphics work
Cons: Poor for anything else - including standard end-user functions

Let me start off by saying that even though I primarily use an IBM compatable, and am a tried and true DOS/Windows user, I do have experience with Mac. I use Mac computers almost every day, ranging from the 10 year old monochromatic machines all the way...

Pros: Great design, reliable, easy to configure and use
Cons: Price, drawbacks of the aging Mac OS

I have been a user of Macintosh and Windows based PCs for many years now. I am proficient with either, but I will always choose a Mac over a PC because it is easier to use and I find that I have always been more productive in a Macintosh environment....

Pros: Fast, Easy, user friendly OS.
Cons: Not capable of properly running some of the more popular software titles.

I have recently spent many a weary hour arguing with firends over the "Apple Vs. PC" theory. In my opinion Apple has done a bang up job with the hardware and architecture of the G4. It is a fast computer with good hardware. But there is one...

Pros: Fast, enhanced power management, new USB technology, easily to install cards and RAM
Cons: May be too fast, DVD is still a bit off

I put my money down on a new iMac DV Special Edition. Lucky for me they were on backorder. In that time, Apple adjusted and realigned (once again) their G4 line. I realized that it was just too good a deal to pass up. I cancelled my iMac and plunked down...

Pros: Speed
Cons: Slightly older architecture?

There is one important thing to know if you're thinking of buying one of the new G4's. According to some very smart folks at Macintouch.com, the first one to be released -- the 400mhz model -- is really a G4 chip stuck into an overall computer...

Pros: Computing power
Cons: cost of apple's machines

The new power macintosh g4 computer is truly powerful. I only purchased the entry level version and it smokes my Pentium three five hundred megahertz. I have both equipped with 128 megabytes of ram. I did my own test of processing power and I used a...

Pros: speed, design, expandability
Cons: lack of support for legacy devices

The Power Mac G4 sets a new standard for desktop computers. With its stylish graphite-and-ice design, its awesome speed, its rich multimedia capabilities, and its easy expandability, it's a top choice for design professionals, gamers, and home users who...

Pros: Pretty, well designed hardware and case, ethernet card standard, awesome digital resolution
Cons: Inept keyboard, useless mouse, frequent crashes, poor software compatibility

G4 350 Yikes 128MB DVD-ROM(hardware encoded) ZIP100

I will preface this review by stating that I am an experienced Wintel/PC user that likes to build and spec my own box from connector to Hard Drive and bios to registry. I was excited to buy...

Pros: Fast! Looks great; Great value
Cons: No disk drive, Old System Software, Graphics Card Problems

Fast. That is the word to describe the new line of G4's. The new g4's utilize the new G4 chip (hence the name) to accelerate the computer to unheard of speeds. The performance of my G4 was outstanding: I had never in my life seen graphics so detailed, so...

Pros: stylish, powerful
Cons: crashes, clumsy mouse

I volunteer for a local after school program and they recently recieved a donation of a few of these computers for the program. They had them hooked up in the computer room for the kids to use in order to play some of the computer games that we carry....

Pros: speed, dual platform capabilities, storage, excellent multimedia capabilities
Cons: no floppy disk drive, few USB connections, poor reboot

Having attended the Maryland Technology Academy during the summer of 1999, I was blown away by the power of the G3. It was so beautiful in its blue casing. I loved the machine and decided I must have one.

Fortunately, when my order finally...