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snes1423
256 MB  Posts: 458 A Man born of Mechina 
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on: March 24, 2024, 17:29
does anybody remember or have the bandai/apple pippin kind of funny how certain people im gonna guess mocked it for having PPC 603e because within a decade the three major home consoles minus everybody's favorite the Wii (anybody remember Bowling on it  ) or the micro$oft XBOX 360 or the PS3 would have a G5 based CPU in them and you thought they would have paid attention to the whole "PowerBook G5" dilemma
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Jatoba
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256 MB Posts: 270 System 9 Newcomer!
Reply #1 on: March 24, 2024, 17:37
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I don't think anyone ever "mocked" it, especially with regards to the outstanding PPC 603e processor (the "G2" processor as some unofficially might call it). Doing so would be extremely foolish or ignorant. It might not be a favorite due to the limited software library, though. The Wii's processor, like the predecessor GameCube, and the successor Wii U, had G3-based processors. IIRC Broadway was the name? And Gecko being the GameCube one? And the Wii U one was some tri-core variant whose name I forgot. G5-based ones were the PS3 and Xbox 360 only. Anyway, I never owned the Pippin, but I do remember it, yes. If I had it, I would be more interested in installing System 7 on it than using it for its intended purpose. I think people have achieved that?
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Neal_SE30
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256 MB Posts: 401 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #2 on: March 24, 2024, 20:35
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I remember it but it was a little after my time. I believe it was expensive at the time. I had several earlier gaming machines and consoles: Atari 2600, TRS-80, a few Sinclair spectrums, a C64, SNES, then a PS1 after that I was either on an a Macintosh colour Classic (college) 1993-98 then a PC when I worked for an electrical store so got staff discount. 1996/97 I’d already moved into desktop gaming rather than consoles. It was meant to be quite a power house, just to expensive with limited number of titles.
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #3 on: March 25, 2024, 15:39
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I don't think the console was mocked. It was rather Apple getting mocked for its odd marketing of the project (and eventually pushing it over to Bandai). It fell into a time when mocking Apple was considered "chic" and proof that you're "in the know" regarding the computer industry. Never saw a Pippin out in the wild, only notions about it in the "Apple press" (magazines). And it wasn't really for a long time. It felt like a few months and then the whole thing was over. Maybe my memories are wrong on that though, don't remember.
Last Edit: March 25, 2024, 15:45 by Bolkonskij
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