For almost five years, the heart of the Power Mac was the PowerPC G4 chip. Starting in 1999 it clocked at just 350 MHz, but by the time the Power Mac G4 line was retired, a tower with dual 1.42 GHz ...

The Mac Mini motherboard was then prepped to install in the iMac’s dome-shaped housing; notably, the entire board is smaller than the stock iMac G4’s hard drive. It still took plenty of ...

Google’s Pixel 9a and Apple’s iPhone 16e are each company’s latest attempts to appeal to the broader mid-range market. Both ...

In a blog post this week, software engineer Andrew Rossignol (my brother!) detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an old PowerBook G4.

Most artificial intelligence projects, such as the constant push for Apple Intelligence ... To compare the performance of the PowerBook G4 project, it was put against a single Intel Xeon Silver ...

Last month, we looked at the Power Mac G4 line, a series of computers that defined the professional workstation for OS X users for many years. In June 2003 — 15 years ago this month — Steve Jobs took ...