Whatever happened to the Xtrem Mac?

[Dunepilot]

Periodically I remember about the swedish start-up Xtrem that claimed to offer a seriously overclocked G4, but came to nothing.

I can't find any details of what eventually happened to the company, and the site no longer exists at www.extrem.com.

I wonder what they're doing now........

Probably the same as the rest of us, hanging on what might come out at Tokyo!:)

[Dunepilot]

INCOMING DOUBLE-POST!


oops, I meant www.xtrem.com

[eyelikeart]

I've never heard of the Xtreme Mac?! :confused:

[Xapplimatic]

I remember it.. it looked pretty cool, but then, maybe it was a fake, OR maybe their only Mac for using the internet has finally fried!

[britboy]

it sure did look cool.

Some details of what it was about:
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2000/10/24.9.shtml

[strider42]

didn't they come out with a set of jumpers for overclocking G4's or something like that. I remember something abuot that. You basically overpaid for readily available jumpers, etc and they gave you detailed instructions. That was the last I heard of them, and that was months ago.

[Dunepilot]

This page (mostly not in english) shows the various 3d renderings Xtrem had made of what their new mac was going to look like

http://203.151.217.14/hardwares/xtrem_mac/xtrem_mac.html


With regard to the jumper idea, I think it was only supposed to overclock later G3s and possibly early G4s, but looked like good idea.

Everyone said it was vapourware at the time - what I'm interested in is where those vapours went.....

Ideas?:confused:

[me hate windows]

looks like a toaster from the '50's:)

[Kid Red]

Where do vapors usually go? Into thin air like removing an unwanted icon form the dock :)

[oldMac]

When I first saw this post, I was thinking Exponential!

Do you all remember Exponential? They were supposedly developing processor technologies to create super-fast (~ 500 - 600Mhz) PPCs back when the fastest around was a 300Mhz 603.

Apparently, it didn't work out as well as they were claiming. Apple pulled out as a backer of the project later on.

As I recall, the prototypes ran *real hot*.

[oldMac]

Here's a link.

533Mhz in 1997, but the prototype was running at 85 Watts! Wouldn't want one of those in my iBook... Could cause some serious damage.

http://www.mackido.com/Hardware/DeadPPCs.html

[Gelfin]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
I've never heard of the Xtreme Mac?! :confused:

Xtrem, not Xtreme Mac (http://www.xtrememac.com/). The latter makes pretty good iPod cases.