The Power Macintosh 8100 (Codenames: "Cold Fusion", "Flagship"; also sold in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 as the Power Macintosh 8115 and with bundled server software as the Apple Workgroup Server

Apple Workgroup Server

Apple Workgroup Server and, later, Macintosh Server, were the names given to selected models of Macintosh computers which were sold by Apple Computer with additional server software and sometimes bigger hard drives. Apart from that, they were mostly identical to computers out of Apple's...

 8150) is a personal computer

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

 that is a part of Apple Computer

Apple Computer

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

's Power Macintosh

Power Macintosh

Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, was a line of Apple Macintosh workstation-class personal computers based on various models of PowerPC microprocessors that were developed, marketed, and supported by Apple Inc. from March 1994 until August 2006. The first models were the Power Macintosh 6100,...

 series of Macintosh computers. It was introduced in March 1994 alongside the Power Macintosh 6100

Power Macintosh 6100

The Power Macintosh 6100 was Apple Computer's first computer to use the new PowerPC RISC type processor created by IBM and Motorola. It came in the Centris 610's "pizza box" low-profile case, and superseded the Quadra series that used Motorola's 68040 processor, Apple's previous high end...

 and the Power Macintosh 7100

Power Macintosh 7100

The Power Macintosh 7100 was a mid-range Apple Macintosh personal computer that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from March 1994 to January 1996. The PowerMac 7100 was faster and more expandable than the Power Macintosh 6100, and was a part of the original Power Macintosh line...

 as the high end model of the original Power Macintosh series and a direct continuation of the prior Macintosh Quadra 800

Macintosh Quadra 800

The Macintosh Quadra 800 is a personal computer that is a part of Apple Computer's Quadra series of Macintosh computers....

. It also shares the 800's notoriously cramped case.

The 8100 originally featured a PowerPC 601 at 80 MHz, but was upgraded to 100 MHz in November 1994, and further to 110 MHz in January 1995. In August 1995, the 8100 was discontinued in favor of the Power Macintosh 8500

Power Macintosh 8500

The Power Macintosh 8500 was a high-end Macintosh personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from 1995 until 1997. Billed as a high-end graphics computer, the Power Macintosh 8500 was also the first Macintosh to ship with a replaceable daughtercard...

. The main variant of the 8100 are the 8100AV models, which came with an analog video in/out card in its Processor Direct Slot

Processor Direct Slot

Processor Direct Slot or PDS introduced by Apple Computer, in several of their Macintosh models, provided a limited measure of hardware expandibility, without going to the expense of providing full-fledged bus expansion slots.Typically, a machine would feature multiple bus expansions slots, if any...

.

External links

• Power Macintosh 8100/80, 8100/80AV, 8100/100, 8100/100AV, 8100/110 and 8115/110 specifications at AppleSpec
• Power Macintosh 8100 at apple-history.com
• Power Macintosh 8100 at Low End Mac
• Power Macintosh 8100/80, 8100/80AV, 8100/100, 8100/100AV, 8100/110, 8100/110AV and 8115/110 at EveryMac.com