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.

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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 joke is on you - got both a PowerMac G4 and a Wii. Apparently, both use reasonably similar CPUs.

TBF, only got the Wii because I got a bit over excited with my good results on PPC.

"It was a birthday present to my wife".
I did get some Zelda games for her, to sweeten the deal, but I end up doing much more homebrew on it then her going thru Hyrule.

@montyontherun @foone AFAIK the Wii CPU is closer to the G3 than the G4. Also the PS3 SPU cores are in a weird middle ground where they have AltiVec but don't have branch prediction, making them sort of a mix-and-match.