Mac's SMP box was a marketing gimmick

Subject: Mac's SMP box was a marketing gimmick
Name: ludicrous
Date: 6/26/2001 9:15:01 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 138.67.74.229
In Reply to: Any chance on the horizon... posted by Ben
Message:

...designed to get around the fact that the company did not have a processor faster than 450MHz for, like, a year while Motorola was working out some cache corruption issues in the G4. Meanwhile, of course, x86 processors had exceeded 1GHz

In other words, don't use the Mac example as any sort of bellweather.