Macintosh Performa 6360(1996)

Background

The Power Macintosh 6300/160 (also sold as the Performa 6360) was introduced in October 1996. It retains the desktop form factor introduced with the 6200, but is built around the "Alchemy" motherboard that was first introduced with the Power Macintosh 5400/120. This board has a 64-bit data path and 64-bit DIMM RAM, PCI slot, and Comm Slot II (incompatible with the earlier Comm Slot). It also includes two GeoPort external serial ports. NuBus cards are not supported. Standard equipment on the 6300/160 and 6360 include a 1.2 GB IDE hard drive, an 8X CD-ROM, full stereo input (unlike the 6200/6300 series, which combined stereo input into monophonic sound), one internal speaker (compared to two on the 6300 series), and support for increased display resolutions with higher bit depth, notably 800x600 16-bit color at 60 Hz and 1024x768 8-bit color at 60 or 70 Hz. The 6360's power supply unit is increased to 150 watts. Software package included with the Performa 6360 include Adobe PhotoDeluxe, Edmark's Thinkin' Things Collection 2, Broderbund's The Amazing Writing Machine, SurfWatch parental control software, clip-art, and electronic dictionaries. Sold only in North and South America.