A big part of the success with the 68k switch over was that the 68k line was getting long at the tooth. Clock for clock 601 would trounce 68040 (even the 486 was faster per clock). Plus the base 601 was at 60Mhz, while the fastest 040 based mac was 40Mhz (the quadra 840av, of which I picked up one a few years later for $40, and still have it).<p>So apple was working with something north of 3x the raw performance, its no wonder that most people with older macs that weren&#x27;t anywhere near the performance of the 840AV thought the powermac was incredible.