The Macintosh Performa 5400CD was a lower mid-range personal computer that was released in April 1996 as a part of Apple Computer's Macintosh Performa family of Macintosh computers for the consumer market. It was succeeded by the Power Macintosh 5500 in 1997.
Features[]
Like other models based on the Performa 5400 (and Power Macintosh 5400), the 5400CD is an all-in-one desktop with a built-in 15" shadow mask display. It contained 1 MB of VRAM that could support up to 8-bit color at a resolution of 832 x 624 pixels and 16-bit color at 640 x 480 pixels. Its logic board, code named "Alchemy", supported a PowerPC 603e processor (clocked at 120 MHz in the 5400CD). Two 168-pin DIMM slots allowed RAM to be upgraded from the base 8 MB soldered onto the motherboard, to a maximum of 136 MB. There were three different expansion slots: a PCI slot, a Comm Slot II for an internal modem or Ethernet card, and a video-in slot that could accept connection to an Apple TV Tuner Card. The 4x CD-ROM and external hard drives were connected through a SCSI bus. The 1.6 GB internal hard disk drive was connected through an IDE bus. The built-in floppy drive supported 1.44 MB high-density disks.[1]
The Performa 5400CD first came with Mac OS 7.5.3 pre-installed along with System Enabler 410 and a home software bundle. The last operating system that it supported was Mac OS 9.1. It also features an L2 cache slot that can be used as a processor direct slot to upgrade it to a PowerPC G3 processor.
Included software[]
April 1996[]
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October 1996[]
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References[]
- ↑ Power Mac 5400-series by Pete Sealy et al., MacGurus. Accessed 2021-01-29.
External links[]
- Macintosh Performa 5400CD: Technical Specifications at Apple Support
- Macintosh Performa 5400CD specs at EveryMac
- Macintosh Performa 5400CD at IT History Society
- Macintosh Performa 5400CD at madeApple