Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Introduced: August 8, 1995 MSRP: $3999 CPU: 604, 604e CPU speed: various Shipped with system version: 7.5.2 RAM: 16 MB, expandable to 512 MB Discontinued: February 17, 1997 Billed as a high-end graphics computer, the Power Macintosh 8500 was also the first Macintosh to ship with a replaceable daughtercard. Additional features included ports for S-Video and composite video. As with the other models in the x500 series, the 8500 underwent several "speed bump" modifications during its production. It originally shipped with a 120 MHz PowerPC 604 CPU, later with the same chip running at 150 MHz, and finally with a PowerPC 604e running at 180 MHz. See also: List of Macintosh models grouped by CPU This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.