Power Macintosh 9500

The Power Macintosh 9500 was the high-end Power Macintosh model (and the first PCI-based Power Mac) when it debuted in the June 1995. In fact, it preceded the 7500 and 8500 by two months!

The Power Macintosh 9500 was designed for DTP or color publishing instead of audiovisual multimedia production. (In fact, it came with no RCA-style audio jacks or video input/output jacks; the Apple Accelerated Graphics Card or a third-party graphics card had to be purchased before this Mac could even be hooked up to a monitor at all.

The 9500 offers speed -- and plenty of it. It also came with a lot of options for expansion. With up to 6 PCI slots and support up to 768 MB of RAM, the Power Macintosh 9500 had every sign of a high-end Macintosh powerhouse.

The Power Macintosh 9500 was also the first-ever multiprocessor Mac. Throughout the 1990s, Apple kept on offering and discontinuing multiprocessor Macs before they were standard or near-standard with the Power Macintosh G4 and Power Macintosh G5 and standard with Intel Core Duo Macintosh computers.