Which processors have you had in your Macs?

[WebHead]

Select all that apply. I've owned Intel and both PPCs

 

[Nermal]

From memory...

68k: LC III (1993)
PPC: Beige G3 (1997), B&W G3 (1999), iMac G3 (1999), iBook G3 (2002), Power Mac G4 MDD (2003), iMac G5 (2005)
Intel: iMac (2006, 2020), MBP (2006, 2011, 2015)

 

[netnewswireuser]

Moto PPC (G3 and G4), Intel and AS (M1 and M4).

 

[theorist9]

Motorola 68k: 1988 Macintosh IIx
≈1990–2002: The dark years: PC only.
IBM PPC: 2003 Power Mac G5
Intel: 2008, 2011, and 2014 15" Macbook Pro's; 2019 27" i9 Retina iMac
Apple Silicon: 2021 16" M1 Pro Macbook Pro

 

[WebHead]

This is obviously about the processors they shipped with. But feel free to mention if you installed a x64 PCI card or whatever.

 

[AlixSPQR]

Never owned a G5 (IBM PPC), otherwise all the others in many models since 1990. The latest is an MBP M4.

 

[WebHead]

I forgot IBM did the G5. They also did the "G1" 601 in my first Mac, a 1995 Power Mac 7200/75

I was a Mac tribalist long before I actually bought one. Never would have thought I'd own one with an IBM processor.

(Or that years after having a startup screen that said "Intel outside" I'd have a Mac with Intel inside!)

 

[curnalpanic]

Never owned a G5

Same! Had all the others, but G5 was the one I skipped. Went from the last G4 to Intel.

 

[Mousse]

All of them.
SE/30, IIci: 68030
Power100* (Mac clone): 601
iBook (Bondi Blue): G3
14" iBook: Core Duo
Studio: M1 Max
Neo: A18

*The Power Computing Power 100 was far superior what Apple offered and at a lower price. Licensing MacOS nearly killed Apple. If Jobs hadn't returned and killed the clones, that might have been the last Mac I ever own.

 

[Luftkopf]

I started my Mac journey with a 433MHz G4 Power Mac, in which I put a 1.3GHz Sonnet upgrade, if I recall correctly. That was a beast. One day I'll see if it still boots.
Core 2 Duo Mac mini
i7 11" MacBook Air
M3 Pro.

 

[boswald]

I started with an Intel 2008 mini just to tinker with (it couldn't do much), then I moved on to a PC for a long time, before finally coming back to the Mac world with an M5 Air.

 

[M.Brane]

All of the above.

 

[maflynn]

All of the above

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I chose all of them, though I'm not 100% sure I had any IBM made PPCs.

I had a PowerPC 601 in my PowerMac 7500 and a PowerPC G3 in my PowerBook G3 "Pismo", but I cannot remember if either of those were from IBM or Motorola.

Other than that I had a Motorola 68K in my Performa 630CD.

Motorola PPC made the PowerPC G4 in my 12" iBook G4.

Intel Core 2 Duos in my MacBook (white plastic, which I think was the second gen with the Core 2 Duo), Mac Mini Server, and MacBook Air 11".

Also an Intel Core i5 in the "Baby" 13" MacBook Pro (2 ports) in 2019, which was so terrible that it's the only Mac I ever sold.

And that brings us to my - still going strong - current M1 MacBook Air with Apple Silicon.

 

[throAU]

intel and apple silicon.

in the 68k days i was on Amiga
in the PPC days i was on PC.

 

[MacsRgr8]

All of them... been using Macs since 1986 (yep.. old fart).
And still have all of them, and added a few for fun.

Oldest Mac in my collection: original Macintosh 128K.
Further nice ones that I occasionally fire up for nostalgic reasons...:

• Motorola 68k​

  • Colour Classic (System 7)

• Motorola PPC​

  • TAM (Mac OS 8)
  • iMac Rev A (Mac OS X Server 1.2 "Rhapsody")
  • Power Mac G3 400 with Voodoo 5 5500 Mac card (Mac OS 9.2.2)
  • Power Mac G4 MDD FW 800 with Radeon 9800 Pro (Mac OS 10.4.11)

• IBM PPC​

  • Power Mac G5 Quad with Geforce 7800 (Mac OS 10.5)

• Intel​

  • MacBook Pro 15" 2008 (Mac OS X 10.6 Server)
  • Mac Pro 2012 Intel Xeon 3.33 GHz with Radeon 7950 Mac edition (Mac OS 10.14 and Windows 8)
  • iMac 2102 i5 with Geforce 675 MX (OS X 10.9 and Windows 7)
  • iMac 2017 i7 with Radeon 580 Pro (macOS 10.12, macOS 10.15, and Windows 10)

And my really used Macs:

• Apple Silicon​

  • Mac Studio M1 Max
  • Mac Studio M4 Max

 

[Mlrollin91]

• Intel:
  • MacBook (2007)
  • iMac (2011)
  • MacBook Air (2012)
  • iMac (2015 - AppleCare Replaced 2011 iMac)
  • Retina MacBook (2015)
  • MacBook Pro (2020)
  • iMac (2020 - AppleCare Replaced 2015 iMac)
• Apple Silicon:
  
  • MacBook Pro M1 Pro
  • MacBook Pro M4 Pro

Italicized are current machines

 

[dmr727]

I've had all of them at one time or another. Heck, I even had a 10MHz 68000 in my ethernet card at one point. 😉

 

[tehabe]

I still miss my iBook G3.

 

[mdcmdcmdc]

Elaborating on my sig:

• 4x Moto 68K: Mac 128 (68000), Mac Plus (68000), Mac IIcx (68030), Quadra 650 (68040)
• 2x PPC, I think Moto but I'm not sure: PPC 601 PDS card in the Quadra 650, G3 B&W
• 3x Intel: 17" late 2006 Core 2 Duo iMac, 13" early 2011 MBP (Core i5?), 21.5" late 2013 Core i5 iMac
• 2x Apple Silicon: 13" 2020 M1 MBP, 14" 2026 M5 Pro MBP

 

[Antares23]

From oldest to newest:

2xPowerPC G5 1.8GHz (PowerMac G5)
DualCore PowerPC G5 2.0GHz (PowerMac G5)
DualCore PowerPC G5 2.3GHz (PowerMac G5)
PowerPC G5 1.8GHz (iMac 17" G5)
Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz (MacBook Pro 15" Early 2006)
Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz (iMac 20" 2006)
Core 2 Duo T7400 2.16GHz (iMac 24" 2006)
Core 2 Duo P7550 2.26GHz (MacBook Pro 13" 2009 & Mac mini 2009)
Core i5 2415M 2.3GHz (MacBook Pro 13" 2011)
Core i5 3210M 2.5GHz (MacBook Pro 13" 2012)
Core i5 4258U 2.4GHz (Retina MacBook Pro 13" Late 2013)
Core i5 4570R 2.7GHz (iMac 21.5" Late 2013)
Core i5 4670 3.4GHz (iMac 27" Late 2013)
Core i7 5557U 3.1GHz (Retina MacBook Pro 13" Early 2015)
Core i7 4870HQ 2.5GHz (Retina MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2015)
Core i7 8700B 3.2GHz (Mac mini 2018)
Apple M1 Pro 10C/16C (MacBook Pro 14" 2021)

 

[Silencio]

I've owned at least one of every major processor class, thought not every processor model within those classes: my first Mac (IIci) shipped with a 68030.

 

[maswriter]

I used a 512 KB Macintosh at work. My home 68K computer was an Amiga 500. I bought my first Mac in 2012 after using PCs for 21 years. My Intel Macs were a 2011 MBP 15", a 2015 MBP 13", and a 2019 MBP 16". I now have an M3 Pro MBP 14".

 

[capamac]

I've had 680x0, PPC, Intel and M-series.

And also 65c02 in an Apple //c. And an A10 Fusion (iPhone 7).

 

[unkl bob]

Still have my first Mac: mid 2012 MBP (now w/16Gb ram and 1Tb storage and the Intel dual core i5), M1 MBP 16" basic, M4 MBA 15" basic, M2 Pro MM basic, and a 2010 MM project (now with 16 Gb ram, 128 Gb storage, and the IntelCore 2 Duo. Most of this will be changing...) Had a few different configurations of MBA over the last six years, all with some version of the M chip.