I've seen different models tossed around on history sites - Mac Plus, Mac II, various flavors of Power Macs... so let's get some input from the community at large. What was the best-selling Mac during the 68xxx and PowerPC years?
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What was the best-selling pre-G3 Mac?
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gkarris
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dpaanlka
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For PowerPC systems, I would say the atrocious but cheap 52xx / 53xx all in ones have a good chance of being the most popular, possibly hundreds of thousands of them went to schools across the world.
It would be interesting to know exactly which model of Macintosh was the best selling.
Neither of these would be during the PowerPC era.
It would be interesting to know exactly which model of Macintosh was the best selling.
Neither of these would be during the PowerPC era.
gkarris
macrumors G3
Eraserhead
macrumors G4
dpaanlka
macrumors 601
I read "during the 68xxx and PowerPC years" as being both PowerPC and 68k. I would bet the 5200/5300 and all those systems that looked exactly the same outsold Mac Pluses.
The Plus was in production far longer than any other model -- five years IIRC. Don't know if that translates to best-selling however.
