As well as sporting the Performa 6400's minitower case, the 6500 inherits its built-in subwoofer. The 6500 series also gets 603 processors at speeds of 225, 250, 275 and a monster 300 mHz (the 603 chips perform slightly better then Pentiums of the same clock speed).
To counter the MMX threat, Apple has supplied all Power Mac 6500s with RAVE II 64 bit 2D/3D graphical accelerator chips, making even the baby 225MHz 6500 capable of outperforming 200MHz MMX Pentiums by a factor of 2 to 1 in Apple's own in-house tests.
The Power Mac 6500 series is Apple's new entry-level Mac and they come with software bundles for either home, office, school, or even multimedia development.
More information Data sheets, Prices, and Configurations
Virtual PC
Want to know what to run on your new Mac? How about absolutely anything? Well anything that runs on a Pentium PC, anyway. That's what Connectix is offering to Mac users in June, with the announcement of its "Virtual PC" -- a software emulator for the Mac that mimics a Pentium PC, including full support for Sound Blaster Pro, VGA, floppy drive, CDROM, keyboard, mouse, and even joystick. In other words, the PC program is totally unaware that it is not running on a PC, so the emulator is cabable of running almost all the OS's presently running on the PC, including DOS, Windows (all forms) and OS/2 -- even NextStep.
Connectix reports "playable" performance of software (read: games) from Virtual PC, and an early review that states "486DX266 performance on a Power Mac 6100/132mHz" for DOOM II seems to bear this out.
Games Sprockets Rumoured Back MacOS Rumours has reported that the much-beloved Apple Games Sprockets originally anounced as being left out of Apple's new NextStep-based operating system, Rhapsody, will now be in the Rhapsody Premiere release, which is good news for Mac gamers, as the sprockets enable programers to use the more advanced features of the Mac without having to write the code themselves from scratch.
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