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== Memory ==
* 8-384 MB, unofficially up to 1.5 GB.
** The "PowerSurge" machines (the 7500-9500 and their follow-ons) used an oddball transitional memory standard, the "fast-page DIMM". These were available in sizes up to 128 MB; the 7500 and 8500 had 8 DIMM slots, and the 9500 has 12, making their maximum RAM 1 GB and 1.5 GB, respective -- both huge numbers for consumer machines in 1995.
** The Beige G3s switched from fast-page RAM to the then-new (but far easier to get) PC100 SDRAM. RAM modules must be double-sided or the computer will exhibit memory-related issues like not reporting all the RAM installed or randomly crashing on boot. All-in-one and Desktop models require low-profile RAM. Also, good luck hunting down three double-sided 512MB modules that work with the system to achieve 1.5GB of RAM, as not all of them work- why the other wiki states that the maximum most people settle with is 768MB of RAM, while Apple themselves states the limit at an extremely conservative 384MB.
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'''''Intel Macs'''''
Starting mid-2005, Apple ditched Motorola's Power architecture for Intel's x86/x86-64 after Motorola failed to deliver a G5 Power CPU that runs cool enough to be placed on a laptop. With this move, Apple also ditched Open Firmware in favor of Intel's revolutionary EFI BIOS (which is only recently started to be embraced by the PC world). The first few generations of these Macs are only 32-bit capable, while newer generations are fully x86-64 compatible (the latter being the necessary requirement to run Mac OS X Lion, thus the 32-bit machines are only capable of upgrading to Snow Leopard).
== Present-Day Mac Mini ==
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== Display ==
* DVI and HDMI. One card can drive two displays.
== Sound ==
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** Most anything Apple management did in the 1990s, Copland being just ''one'' of these decisions. Only Steve Jobs' return saved the company from the fate of [[Sega]], as the companies seemingly competed on shooting themselves in the foot more spectacularly.
** They were little better in the 1980s — choosing, for example, to market the original Macintosh for $2,500 to preserve the high profit margin instead of a much lower $1,500-$2,000 price point the Engineering insisted on, thus crippling the machine's market share from the very beginning.
** Ousting Steve Jobs from his own company and replacing him with a sugar water salesman. Apple were pretty directionless from then until Jobs' return.
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Ellen Hancock, Apple's chief technology officer, was responsible for the NeXT merger and Steve Jobs' return (and therefore more or less directly for saving the company), but Jobs ridiculed her into resigning.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Bill Atkinson, who programmed most of the graphics subsystem for the Mac and its predecessor the Lisa, was seriously injured in a car accident while still planning regions, a critical part of the graphics package. Jobs rushed to the hospital to see what Atkinson's condition was. Atkinson responded "Don't worry, Steve. I still remember regions."
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* [[Team Pet]]: Clarus the [[Mix-and-Match Critters|Dogcow]], introduced in Apple's famous [http://clarus.chez-alice.fr/originals/tn31.html Tech Note 31]. Clarus originally came from one of Susan Kare's [[Useful Notes/Fonts|font designs]] and eventually became the standard image for printer setup dialog boxes. [http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1031.html Tech Note 1031] came along years later to show how to create a 3D rendering, as well as giving some of the history.
* [[Theme Naming]]: OS X releases have been named after big cats (Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion and the forthcoming Mountain Lion<ref>Biology-inclined readers will note that a number of these are technically the same species</ref>), and later versions of the Classic OS had musical names (Tempo, Allegro, Sonata, Rhapsody [the first version of OS X], as well as the never-shipped Copland and the never-existed Gershwin).
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: The move from 68K to PowerPC, the move from OS 9 to OS X, and the move from PowerPC to Intel.
* [[Viewer-Friendly Interface]]: The old-world PowerPC Macintoshes were the inspiration of this trope. Hardware errors are indicated with an Icon of a Sad Classic Macintosh with a bunch of (commonly ignored) numbers in small font underneath it and usually with a heart-skipping sound being played back from the speaker. Also, system crashes were indicated with just a [[Cartoon Bomb|large bomb]], a message saying that the system has crashed and needs to restart, and a restart button, with no technical details displayed at all.
* [[We Will Use Wiki Words in the Future]]: Apple was at least partly responsible for mainstreaming CamelCase terminology through the 1980s.
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* ''[[Civilization]]'' *
* ''[[Clive Barker's Undying]]'' *
* ''[[Command
* ''[[Creatures]]''
* ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces|Dark Forces]]'' *
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* ''[[The Incredible Machine]]''
* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]''
* ''[[Jazz Jackrabbit]]'' *
* ''[[Joust]]''
* ''[[Kings Bounty]]''
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