07-19-2021, 08:51 PM
JoeH wrote:
[quote=mikebw]
Hrm, I feel like that date doesn't jive since the PowerMac 6100/71/81 were released in 1994 as well.
Apple was selling 68K powered Mac's alongside the PowerPC models for a couple years. I would have to look up to check which was the last model using a 68040 processor and when it was introduced. But if it wasn't this series, they were close to the last.
There's a simple reason - the 6100/71/81 era machines were not major hardware leaps over their Motorola counterparts. I stand by my view that until the second gen PowerPC CPUs came out, you were paying more for often a less useful Mac.
Of course, the G3 changes all that.