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Originally Posted by ImmortalA1000
The Amiga 1000 was technically demoted to 2nd place in cutting edge performance/£ by the Acorn A305/A310 Archimedes 256/4096 colour/8 true stereo channel sound and 68020 CPU speed ARM series in 1987 before the A500 even went to stores and they never really got to #1 ever again if you include console chipsets too.
AAA would never ever have made it to an A500/1200 price bracket machine, that being the bulk of Commodore's income. Ditto for Hombre. Ditto for absurd CPU successor PA RISC/MIPS etc ideas when clearly the answer was to move over to dirt cheap in terms of price performance x86 (via AMD). Apple made the right choice, pick a powerful spec x86 based off the shelf solution (CPU and graphics chips) to replace your esoteric slowly advanced hardware choice. That's why Apple are still here, they put in the effort of migrating off Motorola and onto cheaper x86 PC world options and they understood the advantage of not owning a PC wasn't the alternate CPU architecture etc it was the superior OS exclusive to their own computers.
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For a long time after 680x0, Apple used PPC hardware as a selling point of difference, and this was in addition to MacOS eg the "altivec", "super computer" ads they ran.
When it became clear that PPC could not match the price/performance of x86 they moved to intel, and then as the hardware point of difference no longer existed, they focused on the OS as their point of difference.
Today with the M chips, its back to hardware and software as their point of difference.
Seems this thread has to many software guys. Hardware matters.