[HappyDaoDude]

There was that moment when a friend had a Dual G5 PowerMac only to have it trampled in performance by the new Core Duo Mac Mini. That was when we knew Apple had made the right move. I called the G5 tower (Steve's shame), you could just tell that every time those fans kicked into top gear that there was a sense of shame that that thing even shipped.

The M1 felt like that all over again. I didn't really get that feeling during the 68K to PPC era but that also wasn't handled as gracefully.

[dylan604]

Didn't Apple start shipping water cooled overclocked CPUs just to get some sort of a speed bump when the CPUs topped out? Was that the G5 you mentioned?

[einr]

Yes, Apple shipped the top tier PowerMac G5s with water cooling, including the top-of-the-line quad-core (2 x dual core) models. I don't think they were overclocked, they just ran extremely hot at stock speeds.

[xattt]

These topped out at 2.7 GHz. The water coolers ended up developing leaks, for which Apple was sued.

[flenserboy]

My memories of the 68k to PPC transition are mostly watching the new machines reboot, reboot, & reboot some more.

[HappyDaoDude]

Your memories are spot on. ;)