A PowerPC-based Mac, officially known as the "Power Macintosh." Power Macs were introduced in 1994 and superseded the Motorola-based models, the first Mac platform. Power Mac models were ...

In 1988, Apple introduced the Macintosh IIx, an upgrade of the Mac II that included a Motorola 68030 CPU. The IIcx – a compact version of the IIx, also with a 68030 – was introduced in 1989.

The Quips XL workstation includes a Macintosh PowerPC computer, a printer, a 1.3-million-pixel cooled charge-coupled device (CCD) camera, a triple-band pass filter set, and an automated filter wheel.

Because Macintosh computers were always called "Macs ... In 1994, Apple introduced the Power Macs, which used the higher-performance PowerPC chip designed by Apple, Motorola and IBM.