Power Mac G5

E56840

The Power Mac G5 is a line of Apple desktop workstations introduced in 2003, notable for its aluminum tower design and use of 64-bit PowerPC G5 processors aimed at professional and high-performance computing.

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Label Occurrences
Power Mac G5 canonical 7
Apple Power Mac G5 3
Apple Power Mac G5 dual-processor models 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Apple Macintosh computer
desktop workstation
personal computer
architecture 64-bit PowerPC
caseMaterial aluminum
coolingSystem air cooling
liquid cooling (on some models)
cpuFamily PowerPC G5
surface form: IBM PowerPC G5
developer Apple Inc.
discontinuationYear 2006
expansionSlots PCI-X
surface form: PCI

PCI Express (late models)
PCI-X
formFactor tower desktop
frontPorts IEEE 1394
surface form: FireWire 400

USB 2.0
headphone jack
graphicsInterface AGP
PCI Express (late models)
introducedAtEvent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2003
introductionDate 2003-06-23
introductionYear 2003
manufacturer Apple Inc.
marketingClaim "world’s fastest personal computer" at introduction
notableFeature distinctive perforated aluminum front panel
first 64-bit desktop computer from Apple
separate internal thermal zones
operatingSystem Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
powerSupplyLocation bottom of case
predecessor Power Mac G4
productLine Power Macintosh
rearPorts IEEE 1394
surface form: FireWire 400

IEEE 1394
surface form: FireWire 800

Gigabit Ethernet
USB 2.0
optical audio in
optical audio out
successor Mac Pro
supports64Bit yes
supportsDualProcessors yes
supportsMultiDisplay yes
targetMarket high-performance computing
professional users
useCase 3D rendering
audio production
scientific computing
video editing

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PowerPC usedIn Power Mac G5
Mac Pro predecessor Power Mac G5
AltiVec usedIn Power Mac G5
this entity surface form: PowerPC G5
VMX usedBy Power Mac G5
this entity surface form: Apple Power Mac G5
Power Macintosh series successor Power Mac G5
MorphOS supportsPlatform Power Mac G5
this entity surface form: Apple Power Mac G5
PowerPC G5 usedIn Power Mac G5
this entity surface form: Apple Power Mac G5
PowerPC G5 notableSystem Power Mac G5
this entity surface form: Apple Power Mac G5 dual-processor models
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2003 introducedHardware Power Mac G5
this entity surface form: Power Mac G5 line
Power Mac G4 successor Power Mac G5
Power Macintosh successor Power Mac G5
Apple Cinema Display compatibleWith Power Mac G5