But its price was more than competitive. Apple Power Macintosh Not many companies have made the transition from CISC to RISC this well. The Power Macintosh represents Apple's well-planned and successful leap to bridge two disparate hardware platforms. The new Macs run existing 680x0-based applications yet provide PowerPC performance, a combination that sold over a million systems in a year. It's not often anymore that a new computer inspires gee-whiz sentiment, but IBM's Butterfly subnotebook does, with its marvelous expanding keyboard.
Battery life is good, too.
It killed paper tapes and audiocassettes. The competing daisy wheel's advantage was typewriter text clarity. Alan Shugart was involved here, too. The modem that lau nched the industry-standard AT command set. Using the same engine, Apple came out with its LaserWriter shortly thereafter.