Apple Silicon’s victory train: five years of Macs with Apple processors

Already three years later, the Power Macintosh G3 followed in 1997 with the PowerPC 750 (G3), which was better suited for use in desktop computers and was already running at 233 MHz. When the successor G5 did not get over 2700 MHz in 2005 and the performance per watt no longer rose quickly enough, Apple – at that time still under Steve Jobs – decided to switch to the previous arch enemy Intel as a processor supplier. Their core architecture was also suitable for mobile MACs, while iBook and PowerBook with G4 got stuck in the further development.

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