Macintosh Performa 6400

The Macintosh Performa 6400 was a mid-range personal computer that was part of Apple Computer's Macintosh Performa series of Macintosh computers. The Performa variants were introduced in August 7, 1996, while the Power Macintosh variant arrived two months later. They were discontinued in favor of the uniformly named Power Macintosh 6500 in August 1997, ending the Performa brand.
==Included software==
*Mac OS 7.5.3 (Aug. 1996 - Apr. 1997; 180 MHz-model, Aug. 1996 - Feb. 1997; 200 MHz-model) 7.5.5 (February-April 1997; 200 MHz-model only) 7.6.1 (starting after April 1997; all models)
*Finder 7.5.5 (Aug. 1996 - Apr. 1997) 7.5.6 (starting after April 1997)
*LaserWriter 8.3.4
* At Ease 3.0 (Aug. 1996 - Feb. 1997) 3.0.3 (starting after February 1997)
*Apple Guide
*AppleScript 1.1
*ColorSync 2.0
*CD-ROM (features Apple CD-ROM, Foreign File Access, Apple Photo Access, etc.)
* PowerTalk
*QuickDraw 3D
*QuickTime 2.1 (Aug. 1996 - Feb. 1997) 2.5 (starting after February 1997)
*Speech Manager
*PC Exchange
*Adobe Type Manager 3.9
* Adobe PhotoDeluxe v1.0.1
* America Online 2.7 (Aug. 1996 - Apr. 1997) 3.0 (starting after April 1997)
* Quicken Special Edition '96 from Intuit (1996 models only) Quicken Special Edition v7.0 (1997 models only)
* ClarisWorks v4.0
* Eric's Solitaire Sampler
* The 1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (1996 models only) The 1997 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (1997 models only)
* Electronic Arts 3D Atlas v1.1B (1996 models only) Creative Wonders/ABC 3D Atlas '97 (1997 models only)
* Descent
* The Amazing Writing Machine from Broderbund
* Thinkin' Things Collection 2 from Edmark
==External links==
*Macintosh Performa 6400/180, 6400/200, 6410, 6420: Technical Specifications at Apple
**Macintosh Performa 6400/180, 6400/200, Video Editing Edition (archived 1997-02-04)
*Macintosh Performa 6400/180, 6400/200, 6410/180, 6420/200 specs at EveryMac
*The 6400 Zone for info on the 5400, 5500, 6360, 6400, 6500 series Macs
*Power Mac 6400 (Performa 6400) at Low End Mac
*Power Macintosh 6400 at Apple-History
*Macintosh Performa 6400 at Wikipedia