The 7300 uses the "
Outrigger" case first introduced with the
Power Macintosh 7500, but features an enhanced
PowerPC 604e CPU. However, it no longer came with the video in capability the 7600 had, which possibly accounts for the fact that this is the only time that Apple used a lower model number for an upgraded model. Apart from that, the 7300 is more closely related to the 7600 than to the 7200, with features such as a processor daughtercard and
interleaved RAM. The 7300/180 model was also available in a "PC compatible" configuration that included a 166 MHz
Pentium processor with its own RAM (up to 64 MiB) on a PCI card which also provides a PC
game port. This allowed the Mac to dual-boot
Microsoft Windows, which was not compatible with PowerPC hardware. The
PC Compatible Macs were effectively two computers combined in to one. Like the Power Macintosh 7600, the 7300 series utilizes 168-pin DRAM DIMMS, allowing for a total of 8 to be added for 1024 MiB in total. It utilized VRAM SIMMS and allowed 4 units to be added for a total of 4 MiB, providing output at a resolution of up to 1152x870 at 24-bit and 1280x1024 at 16-bit. Additionally, it includes 3 PCI slots allowing the addition of third party cards, including graphics cards. A 2 GB SCSI hard drive was included as standard, on an internal 10 MiB/s SCSI bus, with an external 5 MiB/s SCSI port on the back panel. == Models ==