Power Mac G5

Power Mac G5

This striking design holds the most powerful computer Apple had ever made at the point it was introduced in 2003. That design was required, however, because of the significant heat thrown off by the G5 processor. Apple and IBM were unable to crank the G5 processor up to 3GHz as Jobs had promised, setting the stage for Apple's second great architecture shift.

January 22, 2009 5:20 AM PST

Photo by: CNET Networks

| Caption by: Tom Krazit

 

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