Performa

E8196

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.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Performa canonical 2
Performa 475 1
Performa series 1

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 self-linksurface differs
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

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

LC series successor Performa
subject surface form: Macintosh LC series
this entity surface form: Performa series
Performa notableModel Performa self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Performa 475