Power Macintosh 4400

Power Macintosh 4400

Release date	November 1996
Discontinued	February 1998
Operating system	System 7.5.3, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9
CPU	PowerPC 603e @ 150 and 200 MHz
Memory	Expandable to 160 MiB (70 ns 168-pin DIMM)

The Power Macintosh 4400 (also known as the Power Macintosh 7220 in some markets) was a mid-to-high-end Macintosh personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from 1996 until 1998. The Power Macintosh 4400 was rather different from most other Macintosh models, in that the floppy disk drive is on the left rather than right, and like the Centris 650, the casing is made of metal rather than plastic. Apple did this to reduce production costs, and in addition also used more industry standard components.

It was also available in a PC compatible system with a 166 MHz DOS card containing 16 Mb of RAM. The first 4400 model was only sold to the Europe market, an updated 200 MHz 603e model was released in the United States in February 1997 as the Power Macintosh 4400.

The Power Macintosh 4400 is known as the Power Macintosh 7220 in Australia and Asia, where the number 4 is considered unlucky. The machine was always considered a bit of an oddball, and had a reputation as being one of Apple's less well designed and performing machines.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of Macintosh models grouped by CPU type
• List of products discontinued by Apple Computer

External links

• Power Macintosh 4400/160, /200, /200 PC Compatible, 7220/200 and /200 PC Compatible at AppleSpec.
• Lowendmac.com - Power Macintosh 4400
• Apple-history.com - Power Macintosh 4400 information