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Twentieth Anniverary Mac

Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh

Code Name: Spartacus

The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (or TAM) was a radical changefrom existing computers. The slim unit (under 4" deep) uses the samekind of LCD screen usually found in laptops. Stereo speakerssurround it, along with a large subwoofer for really solidbass.

The keyboard is also like that on a PowerBook. It has no numerickeypad, but does include a trackpad. TAM even uses a 2.5" laptop harddrive, the first desktop Mac to do so. (The second was the original Mac mini, introduced in2005.

According to MacSpeedZone,installing a 512 KB level 2 (L2) cache boosts performance by 15%, goingto 1 MB by 27%.

In all, Apple built 12,000 TAMs.

Although Apple broke the mold after building the TAM, I expectthat within a couple years computers will typically ship with abuilt-in LCD monitor - and the iMac will be a much thinner,lighter machine that we know today.

Several TAM users have reported support for 24-bit video using theATI January 2002 retail drivers. Especially see the posting by RudyV. Pancaro on the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh forum.

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