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>P4 and P-D were already 64-bit

Ah yes had forgotten that (the Apple Intel Dev Boxes were P4's)



Weren’t they Xeons?


Nah. P4s, a gig of SDRAM, either a GMA 800 or GMA 900 for graphics, a 1x and a 16x PCIe slots, a 160GB disk and a DVD drive all running on the first Tiger service pack (10.4.1). Yours for 18 months for only $999! (‘Twas a rental.)


Late Pentium 4 in a pretty much random standard PC motherboard, I think it didn't even have EFI (even the broken 2001-vintage one that was common for years on x86 Macs).

Xeons arrived with Mac Pro.




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