The G5 processor was designed was to be put into multi-processor machines, which Apple sold at the upper end of its product range. In practice, these numbers meant that the Power Mac G5 ran circles ...

Power Mac models were designated first with numbers from 5200 to 9700 and then G3, G4 and G5. What seems paltry today, the first Power Macs came with 8MB of RAM and used the 601 PowerPC CPU chip ...