Power Macintosh 8100

The Power Macintosh 8100 (code - name: " Cold Fusion ", " Flagship " ) is a personal computer by Apple and is part of the Power Macintosh series. Together with the cheapest 6100 and the middle class computers Power Macintosh 7100 he was introduced in March 1994 on the market. In Japan, the heavily armed 8100/110 was published under the name Power Macintosh 8115/110.

The 8100 was the top model of the new series and was delivered in the Tower case. The models of this series were aimed at graphic studios, advertising agencies and printers, which demanded more power.

The 8100/80 appeared with a Motorola PPC 601 main processor and a clock rate of 80 MHz. It cost 4200 U.S. dollars in the United States. Seven months after its launch, Apple put in parallel with the now -built Power Macintosh 8100/110 the bar even higher. With a clock rate of 110 MHz, a processor Motorola PPC 601 as well as a bus clock of 36.7 MHz, it was beyond the parameters of the standard DOS PC. The 8100/110 had three NuBus slots for expandability and was with the operating system MacOS 7.5 ( PowerPC Enabler V1.1.1, AppleTalk 58.1.3 ) delivered. It can be upgraded to MacOS 9.

The official successor of the 8100/80 was from January 1995 8100 /100 of a clocked with 100 MHz Motorola PPC 601 had a bus clock of 33.3 MHz. The Power Macintosh 8100/100 was equipped with the system MacOS 7.5 and MacOS 9 is to be used.

The available AV versions had a factory built-in audio - video card ( S-video and RCA video in / out).