07-19-2021, 09:57 PM
sekker wrote:
[quote=JoeH]
[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.
Back then I lusted after the Quadra 650, but ended up buying a 7100/66 PowerMac. In retrospect, I probably would have been happier with the Quadra.
The 7100/66 had all kinds of design issues, both electrical and mechanical and was essentially a dead end platform. Apple quickly abandoned them when the 603 and 604 machines came out.