This week: The Performa 6300 series
Oh Dear, where do we start. Conceived as a basic consumer (home) Mac, the Performa 6300 series had all the charisma of it's PC rivals. It also packed a punch unlikely to trouble even the thinnest paper bags, and to top it all suffered from a crippling stupid motherboard design that effectively halved the machines speed.
"Highlights" of the series included:
- 160Mhz PPC 603e chip
- 8x CD Rom Drive
- 136Mb maximum RAM
- Shipped with OS 7.1
- Can run OS 9.2
While sporting conservative case design, internally the 6300 series suffered from a motherboard split in to two separate halves. This meant that each half effectively ran at half speed while the CPU looked after each side of the computer in turn. The machine also sported an Apple Geoport modem port just as the rest of the world was turning to standard POTS connectors for modems and a 1.2GB IDE hard drive.
With it's poor styling, slow performance and inability to run OSX, the poor 6300 series is effectively consigned to the dustbin of history. One of Apple rare complete failures. Remaining machines fall into the doorstop category of obsolete tech.
DHM rates the PowerMac 6300 series as 0 out of 5
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