RISC PPCs were the hardware basis for the Mac architecture from the late early 90s to the early 2000s.
PPC 601, 602, 603, 604, G3, G4, G5. (Apple, IBM and Motorola joint ventured the development)
The PPC CPU architecture was more Mac than it ever was PC. Even today, you can't build a PC around a PPC CPU using off the shelf parts.
It was only when the PPC architecture ran into a developmental brick wall (heat/size to performance) that Apple adopted the simpler solution and just based their computers around Intel Core/2 chips instead.
The Mac's never been better as a result. I should know since I've been buying them since the Mac 68k days dating back to the late 80s.
Don't hate on the Mac: they just plain work. Anything other than a good prebuilt OEM PC is a high maintenance machine if you want the best performance out of it. Even the prebuilts have far more problems than Macs just going off basic consumer feedback data.
As a PC builder, I can vouch for that too.
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