Re: odd system profile?

At 12:31 -0800 2004-03-15, Robert Lettieri wrote:
>I've been trying to trouble shoot a SCSI card problem and noticed
>this in the Apple System profiler. The machine model is listed as a
>G3, it that normal? Is that a bug in ASP? Any ideas?
>
>This is the ASP output:
>
>Hardware:
>
> Hardware Overview:
>
> Machine Model: Power Mac G3 (PCI graphics)
> CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.6)
>...

   This is probably the short-lived, first generation Power Macintosh
G4 ("Yikes!"), which was based on a system board similar to that of
the Blue & White G3:

   http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g4.shtml

   The key distinguishing characteristic of this model is its PCI
graphics card slot; AGP slots were used in later Power Macintosh G4
models.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Mon Mar 15 12:42:11 2004