The 1999 G4 Power Macs were the first Macs with bootable USB. The Yikes! version does not have the AGP video card slot or support AirPort. The Yikes! machines have a different motherboard with different features than the Sawtooth G4, which is covered on a separate page. Note that there were two different versions of the Power Mac G4. The 400 MHz Yikes! (a.k.a PCI Graphics) offers 0.8-3.2 gigaflops (billion floating point operations per second) performance by government definition in 1999, it was a supercomputer. Designed in graphite gray, silver, and clear plastics, it even looks professional. Offering up to twice the performance of the G3 and three times the power of a Pentium III at the same clock speed, the G4 was Apple’s first serious pro computer after Steve Jobs became iCEO. The Power Mac G4 was the first personal computer classified as munitions and under export restriction because of its power at the time it was introduced. Lla”Wicked fast” is the phrase that best summarizes the breakthrough performance of the G4 CPU.
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