Apple unveiled the first Power Macintosh models—the [[Power Macintosh 6100|6100]], [[Power Macintosh 7100|7100]], and [[Power Macintosh 8100|8100]]—on March 14, 1994.<ref>{{citeweb |titlename=The PowerPC Macintosh Book (1994) |access-date=2025-07-06 |url=https://vintageapple.org/macbooks/pdf/The_PowerPC_Macintosh_Book_1994.pdf }}<pmbook/ref> These used the 32-bit [[PowerPC 601]] CPU, manufactured by IBM/Motorola. The first portable Mac models to use PowerPC processors were the [[PowerBook 5300]] series, released on August 25, 1995 and featuring the [[PowerPC 603e]] chip.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Macintosh PowerBook 5300ce/117: Technical Specifications |url=https://support.apple.com/kb/SP180 |publisher=Apple |access-date=February 1, 2021 |archive-date=July 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729131941/http://support.apple.com/kb/SP180 |url-status=live }}</ref>
PowerPC Macs shipped with [[Mac 68k emulator|a built-in emulator]] that ran unmodified 68k code at about 60–70% of native 68040 performance.
