Performa

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Performa was a line of consumer-oriented Macintosh personal computers produced by Apple in the 1990s, marketed as affordable, all-in-one home and small-office systems.

Aliases (2)

Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Macintosh line
computer product line
basedOn existing Macintosh LC models
existing Macintosh Quadra models
bundledWith CD-ROM titles
pre-installed software suites
cpuFamily Motorola 68000 family
surface form: "Motorola 68030"

Motorola 68000 family
surface form: "Motorola 68040"

PowerPC
surface form: "PowerPC 601"

PowerPC
surface form: "PowerPC 603"
designGoal low-cost Macintosh for mass market
discontinuationReason brand simplification of Macintosh product lines
shift to clearer product naming at Apple in late 1990s
discontinuedInYear 1997
distributionChannel consumer electronics retailers
department stores
mass-market retail chains
formFactor all-in-one systems
desktop computers
includedFeature built-in CD-ROM drive on many models
built-in display on many models
pre-configured hard drive and software
introducedInDecade 1990s
introducedInYear 1992
manufacturer Apple Inc.
surface form: "Apple"

Apple Inc.
surface form: "Apple Computer, Inc."
marketedAs affordable Macintosh line
marketingStrategy heavy use of bundled software for differentiation
model variants customized for specific retailers
namingScheme model numbers in the 52xx series
model numbers in the 54xx series
model numbers in the 62xx series
model numbers in the 63xx series
model numbers in the 64xx series
notableModel Performa
surface form: "Performa 475"

Performa 5200CD
Performa 5200CD
surface form: "Performa 6200CD"

Apple Macintosh Performa series
surface form: "Performa 6400"
operatingSystem Mac OS 7
Mac OS 8
Classic Mac OS
surface form: "System 7"
productType consumer-oriented Macintosh personal computer
replacedBy Power Macintosh series
surface form: "Power Macintosh G3 consumer configurations"

iMac line
targetMarket education market
home users
small offices

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Performa notableModel Performa
this entity surface form: "Performa 475"
LC series successor Performa
subject surface form: "Macintosh LC series"
this entity surface form: "Performa series"

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