Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u...
by PeterStuer on Sunday October 08, 2023 @01:22AM
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I had one of those first gen PPC Macs, Having spend big on a new machine and have everything run much slower than on your old machine, and that in a time where unlike today we did not have performance to spare, was a real turnoff.
It got abetter eventually, but by then 1st gen was already replaced, and you had to buy the next version of the software as well if eventually a PPC native version came available. Office software in those days was also much more expensive than today.
At the same time Microsoft released Windows 95, arguably the first Windows with a usable GUI. The PPC switch was a disaster for Apple, no doubt about it.
It got abetter eventually, but by then 1st gen was already replaced, and you had to buy the next version of the software as well if eventually a PPC native version came available. Office software in those days was also much more expensive than today.
At the same time Microsoft released Windows 95, arguably the first Windows with a usable GUI. The PPC switch was a disaster for Apple, no doubt about it.