The largest covers PCI‑slot equipped Macs, which are the most recent ones, and enable you to use the current generation of audio I/O cards, SCSI cards, and other peripheral interface cards. There are two separate parts to the table. Entries coloured red are not recommended choices, and are given for comparison purposes only. All of these machines have floppy drives, so there's no problem with key disk copy protection, and all have the traditional 8‑pin mini DIN serial ports, so any budget 16‑channel MIDI interface can be used.
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The table shows recent Power Macintoshes because an increasing number of music software packages now require a Power Mac as the absolute minimum spec. I've been looking at the whole subject of older, pre‑owned Macintoshes recently, and the accompanying table show a summary of the results.
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How do you tell a golden oldie from an out‑of‑date duffer which will be expensive to upgrade and impossible to maintain? There are many ways of using low‑cost, second‑hand Macs, but deciding exactly which one to buy can be a bit daunting.
Second‑hand Macsīut you don't need the latest Macintosh technology to make music. The final G4 standard feature may also occupy some of your your time: all models now come with DVD‑ROM drives and DVD‑Video playback, which means that your Mac is ready not only for the huge storage opportunities of DVD‑ROMs, but can also replay movies. Initially found in the best‑selling iBook, AirPort now seems to be part of Apple's standard networking features. AirPort is a wireless networking technology that allows you to connect to other computers and the Internet without huge expense or complex setting up - although there is a computer‑speak 'up to' specification list: up to 10 computers at distances of up to 150 feet at up to 11 Megabits per second.
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The standard graphics facilities became the ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP card with 16Mb of VRAM, and an AGP 2x graphics card slot for improved 3D performance.Īll G4s are now AirPort‑ready, which may provide a solution to the reams of cabling normally associated with computer networking. The tweaked 'G3' circuit board of the 350MHz G4 was replaced by the 'real' G4 board as per the 400 and 450MHz models, which should mean that the G4 350MHz model now out runs a little faster than the original, for no price change. Yep, the G4 product line was reworked by Apple, and all the niggles that reviewers and industry observers had moaned about was fixed. Some good news this month - the confusion over the launch of Apple's new G4, which I spent a fair amount of space explaining last month, was all sorted out by Apple before the January SOS had been printed. Finally, there's news of free Mac shareware from SOS. Martin Russ brings post‑Christmas good cheer and looks at some second‑hand sale bargains.