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I was the first to order a Yikes! 400MHz G4 tower from my local Apple reseller when they first came out. I loved this ad campaign! I was also smitten when App
by bradfa 3y ago
I was the first to order a Yikes! 400MHz G4 tower from my local Apple reseller when they first came out. I loved this ad campaign! I was also smitten when Apple dropped the speeds on all the SKUs by 50MHz as I had gotten mine before that happened.
The Yikes! G4 was basically the blue and white G3 hardware (chassis, mainboard, everything) just with tiny circuit changes to give 66MHz PCI for the graphics card while all the other G4 towers had a completely different motherboard with AGP graphics. I really liked that machine, but I ended up selling it around 2008 as I no longer used it much.
- adolph 3y agoHere is an article with the story about that G4 tower and nearly all the others: https://www.macstories.net/mac/the-power-mac-g4-line/ https://www.macstories.net/mac/the-power-mac-g4-line/ Motorola struggled to meet demand and Apple had to give up on the 500 MHz model it had promised customers. Apple had to shift its speeds down, and ended up selling 350 MHz and 400 MHz “PCI” models and a 450 MHz “AGP” model.
- linguae 3y agoI actually own a 350MHz “Yikes!” model, though I purchased mine in 2009 for just $40. It’s a very nice machine and is one of the easiest desktops I’ve worked on. Mine runs both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X Tiger; while I own faster PowerPC Macs for running Tiger, this is my fastest machine running the classic Mac OS; it feels nice booting into Mac OS 9 every now and then and using classic applications.