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The '''Pippin''' was an attempt by Apple in the mid-1990s to create a low-cost computer for playing multimedia CDs and browsing the Internet. It was a ''severely'' stripped-down Macintosh with TV-compatible video output which Apple intended to be manufactured by third parties, and Bandai chose it as a way to (re-)enter the game console market.
But the fact that it was seen and marketed mainly as a console and not a computer, put it into a bad spot. The $599 pricetag, more suitable for an entry-level PC, was just too expensive for the console market. Remember the outrage that the same price for [[Play Station 3]] caused in 2006? Ten years before it was even worse: 1996's $600 corresponded to 2006's $800, if corrected for inflation. To add insult to injury, its hardware, unlike [[Play Station 3]] one, was not really better than that of contemporary consoles, and it was too weak to run the normal Mac software of the day. It was ''very'' short of [[RAM]] and lacked any storage whatsoever, except for a tiny 128K [[Flash Memory|Flash]] chip mainly used for system settings. Unsurprisingly, it bombed, with just 42,000 units sold.
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== Processors ==
* [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]]: PowerPC 603, 66 Mhz.
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