RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES 2006
MACS GET INTEL INSIDE
[ Words Craig Grannell ]
M acs get Intel inside? What did they have inside before Intel chips – potato chips?
Oh, you’re so young (and strange). But no: the first Macs had Motorola 68k processors. In 1994, these were replaced by PowerPC chips that were much faster; to hammer this message home, Apple ran an ad where a snail crawled slowly across the screen with a Pentium II strapped to its back, before a shot of a snazzy, speedy G3 Mac appeared. This didn’t age well: a few years later, PowerPC had stalled and Macs looked slothful – hence Apple making good with Intel.