The History of PowerPC Processors in Macs - Tech History

[@FoxInkling]

You did a really great job explaining the PowerPC history of Apple

[@tanmoymridha5002]

It's interesting to think that Apple ditched intel for the very same reason Apple ditched powerpc.🤔

[@jammfinalgirl]

Nice video! You’re really underrated!

[@mikv8]

That iMac G4 ad is just brilliant. Never seen it before.

[@randalpapadum1312]

Good job, this is a well put together video 👍

[@transitengineer]

Sorry, to be so late to the party but, you did an excellent job with this video. In 1996, I got my first Apple desktop computer an All-in-One 5400. So, I have lived through all of Apple Computer's PowerPC desktop and laptop models and ... what a ride it was too. Have several of these systems in my collection, including a glossy white 20-inch G5 iMac, G3 Powerbook with Fire-wire 400 ports and an internal Airport card, and like yourself a 12-inch G4 Powerbook (smile...smile).

[@jimgolab536]

This would be more useful if you actually included the PPC chip names for each: 603, 603e, 603eV, 604, 740, 750, etc.

[@RichardHoule]

9:06: « World’s first 64-bits computer » ? Really ? Because I had 64-bits computers before that. If you had say: « World’s first PERSONAL 64-bits computer » That I could have agreed.

[@billyward8900]

Awesome video! Would appreciate more like it

[@maxresdefault_]

A pretty great history. It was interesting to see Apple go back to that classic tower design after the cylindrical iMac Pro was met with so much criticism regarding expandability. While almost all of these devices look beautiful, even today, some do look a little dated and had at least one memorable flaw. Let’s not forget the iMac 3, the computer with a 100% failure rate.

[@campkira]

Easy.. power and production cost.. and MONEY....

[@clbl8706]

I tried looking it up but I can't find any information about an iMac with a 100% failure rate.

[@asmc1492]

I think you mean apple iii

[@RichardHoule]

11:25 And one of the other reason for Apple switching to it’s in-house ARM cpus were also Intel’s Skylake lines of CPU were so bad in term of quality that Apple had no choice than to develop a Plan B. In which, Apple realized they could do better than Intel on many aspects because of their experience on their custom iPhone CPUs.

[@RichardHoule]

11:24 And I’ve also heard behind the scene whispers that one of the last straw for IBM’s PowerPC at Apple was that IBM gave the Xbox 360 team priority over them.

[@johnjohny1312]

Great video, the Power Mac G5 wasn't the first 64-bit computer tho.

[@antonbarbone1704]

He probably meant to say the first 64 bit apple computer, but yeah it wasn’t the first in the world

[@jscorpio1987]

@@antonbarbone1704 it was marketed by Apple as the first 64 bit computer. So I can understand why the average person who doesn't do too much research on the validity of that claim would be lead to believe that to be true. And in all honesty, it's not much of a stretch to say it was the first 64 bit mainstream personal computer that was marketed to consumers. (Edited for spelling correction)

[@FlakerGamer]

Is the first 64 PC before it have ARM for Big companies with 64 bits​@@jscorpio1987

[@RichardHoule]

9:45 I’ve heard rumors that the water cooled G5 cost so much to Apple in the long run because of the warranty, that they lost money on them.

[@trump1678]

Great video

[@estuardoguatemala]

It’s time to update the video. Really good my friend

[@canopus5498]

Powermac G4 i got used from my father was my first computer ever, barely knew what i was doing

[@jscorpio1987]

The first computer I bought was the 12 inch PowerBook G4. I still use it from time to time for the nostalgia. It's amazing how reliable and long lasting the PowerPC Macs were/still are.

[@boovproductions8515]

The first computer I got was an iMac G4. but sadly it broke back in late 2014 :(

[@aidan5125]

I give you my luck as your channel grows

[@aidan5125]

Actually wait never mind I have horrible luck

[@doomtomb3]

good video. I like your channel. subbed

[@makaioshin-xviiisama835]

Bro great video nice lesson only i got the feeling you went a bit to fast on the imac g5 cuz you didn’t mention that last version in its line up got the first powerpc build in face game that’s an interesting upgrade in that date

[@VK2FVAX]

DEC did cut down Alpha workstations to make personal AXP computers that were 64bit more than ten years before apple. Sorry. Not first. Disengage your RDF. Interestingly, some of their offerings were much cheaper than Apple's for the day. :) I can remember we bought a 64bit 166mhz EV5 (4/166) Mustang for 2700$ back in the mid 90's.

[@bob0507]

No Xserve or Mac mini?

[@KingASE88]

Mac mini only had one generation with a powerpc cpu so I decided to skip it. There are other machines I left out too but in my opinion I think the video gets the history out even without some machines.

[@evelyn.exe_]

i came from the computer in a wii video and holy shit your voice dropped by 9 octaves

[@covert0overt_810]

Home ❤

[@alexwolkow8534]

Nice! Thanks :)

[@uribak9144]

All of Apple's transitions show us one thing, that there is no long-term stability in the platform. Add to that the transition to ARM processors, if at all successful and despite all the transitions the PC is still faster.

[@thegorn]

People don’t do work on Apple products lol they are just for consumers. Linux and Windows is where work is done

[@steinkoloss7320]

@@thegorn Apples major use case: Creative Stuff Windows major use case: Office Stuff Linux major use case: Server stuff

[@clbl8706]

For real. Why even buy an M1 Mac when three years down the road there is gonna be another MAJOR transition that changed the way you do most things.

[@asmc1492]

Next transistion is going to risc V. I'm calling it

[@mikekaylor1226]

@@thegorn BULLSHIT!

[@ahmedlonee]

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[@paraierchestevmnsiem522]

where Is Apple Pippin PowerPC?

[@sundhaug92]

The PowerMac G5 wasn't the first 64-but computer, a lot of workstations, mainframes, beat it.

[@Meshamu]

Yeah, that's a bit of a flub. I think if he'd said "first 64-bit personal computer", it could've been correct.

[@kenshiroaimoto4438]

​@@Meshamuthats most likely what he meant

[@leakthis7218]

Watching this in 2020 apple has ditched the intel processor and swapped to arm

[@glacierlegion9439]

9:09

[@maxheadrom3088]

The 68K series from Motorola were much better CPUs than anything Intel produced. Unfortunately, thanks to IBM, Intel won and killed the 68K.

[@saurondp]

They were, up until Motorola ran into problems with the 68040 and then the 68060. By the time the latter came out, pretty much everyone who had been using the 68k series had already transitioned away to different archtectures.

[@camcappe353]

After the g5 shortly apple switched to intel. So much for fastest pc.Steve said powerpc was not his idea that they did that when he wasn’t at apple. But yeah all the while he kept lying about powerpc chips, you can get pentium 3 and 4s of the time that can clearly show how advanced i ntel was and still continues to be. No way am I ever believing in this shr company again. No way.

[@mg_1080i]

11:17 already happened

[@hedw1gP]

arm based mac transitioning disappointed me... Boot Camp, pro softwares based on x64 architecture, and... Is it necessary to run AMD Radeon on an Arm chip?..

[@EricCartman056]

Your comment didn’t age well lol

[@kingeling]

​@@EricCartman056 How so?

[@ota1998]

It would be better without that unpleasant musical background.