The Power Mac 7600 is identical to the 7500 – except for the processor card. The 7500 shipped with a 100 MHz PowerPC 601 CPU; the 7600 with a 120 MHz or 132 MHz PPC 604 or a 200 MHz 604e.
Thanks to its daughter card design, it can be upgraded with a faster 604e, a G3, or even a G4 CPU card.
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Details
- 7600/120 introduced 1996.04.22; discontinued
- 7600/132 introduced 1996.08.03; discontinued
- 7600/200 introduced 1997.02.17; discontinued
- requires System 7.5.3 through 9.1 (7600/200 requires System 7.5.5 or later); Mac OS 9.2.x requires a G3 or G4 upgrade
- CPU: 120 or 132 MHz 604 or 200 MHz 604e
- Bus: 40-50 MHz, controlled by CPU card
- Performance: XXX (relative to SE)
- 53,097 (120 MHz) Whetstones
- ROM: 4 MB
- RAM: 32 MB, expandable to 512 MB using 70ns 168-pin DIMMs (8 sockets), Apple notes “128 MB DIMMs can be used, but have not been tested” – this would bring total RAM to 1 GB.
- VRAM: 2 MB, expandable to 4 MB
- Video: supports resolutions to 1280 x 1024
- L2 cache: 256 KB standard, can be expanded to 1 MB
- SCSI bus: internal fast SCSI (to 10 MBps), external SCSI (to 5 MBps)
- PCI slots: 3
- 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, possibly to G3 motherboard
- Power supply: 150W
- PRAM battery: 3.6V half-AA
- Height: 6.15 in
- Width: 14.4 in
- Depth: 16.9 in
- Weight: 22.0 lb
- Gestalt ID: 68
Accelerators & Upgrades
- New Type of G3 Daughter Card, Mac Daniel, 1999.05.20
- CPU daughter cards. See our Guide to G3 Daughter Cards and Guide to G4 Daughter Cards
Online Resources
Cautions
- Apple discontinued support and parts orders for this model on 2001.10.15 (2001.10.22 in Canada), except in California. You may be able to find dealers with parts inventory either locally or on our parts and service list.
- Because of the way the internal SCSI cable is routed in the 7300-7600, it is very easy for it to come loose from the motherboard while opening the case. Should this happen, be sure to plug it back into SCSI bus 0, not SCSI bus 1 (which is for the slower external SCSI port).
- G3 upgrade cards unstable?, MacWeek
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