Prayers from the Church of X

[Shawn Miller]

[Bret Williams] “The G4, and then G5 (fastest computer at the time for a moment and was being installed in hordes as a supercomputer, etc) weren’t enough?”

That was marketing. The G4 and G5 were slower than the fastest PC of the time.

Shawn

[Oliver Peters]

[Bret Williams] “I think it was the switch to Intel that made it a little easier and the fact that Apple had made quite a market comeback. Had that not happened Adobe and Avid would have likely written another version of history.”

Agreed.

Although we’ve been kicking around old Mac/PC history, it’s worth noting that around this time SGI was also on the wane and a number of SGI-based products also shifted to PC. Most notably Autodesk/Discreet.

– Oliver

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