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![8100/80AV]], the first Power Macintosh based on the [[Quadra 800]] form factor.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Power-Macintosh-8100-80av.jpg?width=200 "8100/80AV]], the first Power Macintosh based on the [[Quadra 800]] form factor.")
![A complete Power Mac G4 Cube system, including a 17" [[Apple Studio Display]], [[Harman Kardon]] speakers, keyboard, and mouse.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PowerMac Cube.jpg?width=200 "A complete Power Mac G4 Cube system, including a 17\" [[Apple Studio Display]], [[Harman Kardon]] speakers, keyboard, and mouse.")
![Power Macintosh 6100/66]], a version of the first Macintosh to use a PowerPC processor.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Power Macintosh 6100-66.jpg?width=200 "Power Macintosh 6100/66]], a version of the first Macintosh to use a PowerPC processor.")
![[[Power Macintosh G3]] Mini Tower and Blue and White](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Power Macintosh G3 models.jpg?width=200 "[[Power Macintosh G3]] Mini Tower and Blue and White")
ويكيبيديا
The Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer as the core of the Macintosh brand from March 1994 until August 2006.
Described by MacWorld as "the most important technical evolution of the Macintosh since the Mac II debuted in 1987", it is the first computer with the PowerPC CPU architecture, the flagship product of the AIM alliance. Existing software for the Motorola 68k processors of previous Macintoshes do not run on it natively, so a Mac 68k emulator is in System 7.1.2. It provides good compatibility, at about two thirds of the speed of contemporary Macintosh Quadra machines.
The Power Macintosh replaced the Quadra, and was initially sold in the same enclosures. Over the next twelve years, it evolved through a succession of enclosure designs, a rename to "Power Mac", five major generations of PowerPC chips, and a great deal of press coverage, design accolades, and controversy about performance claims. It was discontinued as part of the Mac transition to Intel processors announced in 2005, making way for its replacement, the Mac Pro.
