Total Sales Volume • Motorola 68000 Era (1983-1994): • Approximately 10-12 million units total across all models • Took until March 1987 (over 3 years) to sell 1 million Macintosh units • Slower initial adoption due to high prices and limited software • PowerPC Era (1994-2006): • Significantly higher sales volumes • iMac G3 alone sold 6 million units • iMac G4 sold 3.1 million units (with eMac) • Power Mac G5 sold over 500,000 units in less than a year • Quarterly sales of PowerPC models regularly exceeded 200,000-300,000 units That should help. Most Popular Models • Motorola Era: Macintosh Plus (longest production run), Macintosh SE, Macintosh Classic • PowerPC Era: iMac G3 (highest total sales), iMac G4, Power Mac G4/G5 Based on the available sales data, Apple computers using PowerPC CPUs were significantly more popular with consumers than those using Motorola 68000-series CPUs. The PowerPC era saw much higher sales volumes, faster growth, and broader market penetration. -andy
On Mar 16, 2025, at 8:47 AM, John Heritage via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Just curious were there more Motorola 68000 series macs made then PPC?
I know mac sales started slow. But Mac sales also slowed in the mid to late 1990s when the PPCs were shipping.
68K macs and PPC macs also sold for nearly the same number of years. There were also clones of 68K (maybe PPC?).