Anyone got a line on how many computers Apple shipped in their PowerPC era?
that's 1994-2006, 12 years. I want to know how many in total they sold.

this says in 2006 they sold 4.5 million computers, and implies that this is a recent high.
so... 12*4.5 = 54 million as a guess at an upper bound?

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0130/043.html

This Apple Is Too Shiny

The fashionable iPod has made Apple Computer beloved on Wall Street. But that success has hidden an off-key note: It's eroding the company's profitability.

Forbes
okay lets be generous and say that number is way too low and they sold twice as many, at 108 million powerPC computers.

So here's the fun thing:

The Nintendo Wii sold 101 million consoles.
The Xbox 360 sold over 81 million consoles.
The Nintendo Gamecube and Wii U add another 21 million and 14 million consoles.
All those consoles are PowerPC!

WHICH MEANS that Apple only managed to ship enough PowerPC Macs to about match the Nintendo Wii.
And all three PowerPC Nintendo consoles easily outsold all PowerPC macs.

So if you had a PowerPC chip in your house, it was most likely Nintendo's fault, not Apple's.

@foone i mean, i started getting powerpc macs to port NT to because i saw one that was cheaper than a usb gecko, so...
@Rairii @foone wait do people earnestly still use usb geckos for gcn/wii/wiiu stuff these days?
@pcy @foone when working on my NT port to Wii I added support for NT kernel debugging over usb gecko. Mainly because dolphin supported it and an NDEV is even more expensive.

...recently I was given more info about the hardware bug I was hitting, but I'd need to refactor a lot of the port in any case...
@Rairii @pcy @foone I’m still convinced building a usb gecko clone using the rp2040 or the rp2350 should be possible tbh
@sven @Rairii @foone yeah that seems like a relatively good option to me as well
@Rairii @foone @pcy I am sooo tempted to do a trial with a random USB gecko I can find...