Specifications

Figure 1-2 Power Mac G5 rear view

Door latch

Access covers for PCI

expansion slots

DVI display port

AirPort antenna port

Bluetooth antenna port

Power socket

Optical digital audio out port

Optical digital audio in port

Ethernet port

DVI display port

USB 2.0 ports (2)

FireWire 400 port

FireWire 800 port

Internal modem port

(on some models)

Audio line-out port

Audio line-in port

The enclosure has space for two hard disk drives and one optical device. See Hard Disk Drives (page 38).

To access the main logic board to install PCI or PCI-X cards or additional memory, refer to Expansion (page

57). For full details regarding opening and accessing the computer, refer to the Power Mac G5 User’s Guide

that was shipped with your computer.

Warning: Opening the enclosure side panel impacts the thermal performance of the computer. Do

not run the enclosure with the side panel open. If the air deflector inside the enclosure is removed,

the fans will spin very slowly and the system will take action to prevent over-heating.

System Software

The Power Mac G5 ships with Mac OS X 10.4 installed as the default operating system. The classic environment

can be used to run Mac OS 9 applications. Load the Classic application from the system software optical disk

that shipped with your computer.

To retrieve information from the I/O Registry, use the APIs in the header file IOKit/IOKitLib.h.

Overview to the Power Mac G5

System Software