Power Mac 9600

The Power Mac 9600 was the last Mac with six PCI expansion slots. It also has 12 memory sockets and no onboard video, so one PCI slot must be occupied by a video card. It shipped from the factory with an ixMicro TwinTurbo video card especially adapted for Apple.

The 300 and 350 MHz versions sometimes had an extra powerful 560W power supply (vs. 390W on the regular 9600) to drive the power hungry 300 and 350 MHz 604e processors. These models also has a 1 MB L2 cache and 64 MB of memory.

The 9600 was part of the last generation of Macs to ship with a SCSI hard drive as a standard feature.

EveryMac has a QuickTime VR movie that shows the easy access and intelligent design of the 8600/9600 case.

Both the 8600 and 9600 were essentially replaced by the beige Power Mac G3 in November 1997.

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Details

9600/200 introduced 1997.02.17; discontinued 1997.08.05
9600/200MP introduced 1997.02.17; discontinued 1997.08.05
9600/233 introduced 1997.02.17; discontinued 1997.08.05
9600/300 introduced 1997.08.05; discontinued 1998.02.17
9600/350 introduced 1997.08.05; discontinued 1998.03.17
requires System 7.5.5 (200/233 MHz) or 7.6.1 (300, 350 MHz) through 9.1; Mac OS 9.2.x requires a G3 or G4 upgrade
CPU: 200-350 MHz PPC 604e
Bus: 40-50 MHz, controlled by CPU card
Performance:
169,492 (350 MGHz) Whetstones
ROM: 4 MB
RAM: 32 or 64 MB, expandable to 768 MB using 70ns 168-pin DIMMs (12 sockets), Apple notes “128 MB DIMMs can be used, but have not been tested” – this would bring total RAM to 1.5 GB.
VRAM: 4 or 8 MB using OEM version of ixMicro TwinTurbo video card
Video: supports resolutions to 1280 x 1024 at 24 bits and up to 1600 x 1200 at an unspecified bit depth
L2 cache: 512 KB or 1 MB
SCSI: internal fast SCSI bus (to 10 MBps), external SCSI bus (to 5 Mbps)
Hard drive: 4 GB
CD-ROM: 12x
PCI slots: 6
Microphone: standard 3.5mm minijack, compatible with line-level input including Apple’s PlainTalk microphone
ADB: 1 port for keyboard and mouse
serial: 2 DIN-8 GeoPorts on back of computer
SCSI: DB-25 connector on back of computer
Ethernet: AAUI and 10Base-T connectors on back of computer
upgrade path: CPU daughter card
Power supply: 390W (560W for 300, 350 MHz versions)
Height: 17.3 in
Width: 9.7 in
Depth: 17.3 in
Weight: 35.0 lb
PRAM battery: 3.6V half-AA
Gestalt ID: 67 (200/233 MHz), 105 (300, 350 MHz)