애플 피핀

애플 피핀(Apple Pippin)은 애플 컴퓨터가 1990년대 중반 자신의 운영체제와  66-MHz PowerPC 603e processor, a 14.4 kbit/s modem 를 이용하여 만든 보급형 CD-based 멀티미디어 플랫폼이다. 4배속 CD-ROM drive 와 테레비젼에 연결될 수 있는 출력단자를 가지고 있었다. 피핀이라는 이름은 매킨토시 사과에 관련된 Newtown Pippin에서 따왔다.

피핀은 게임기처럼 보였지만, 네트웍 컴퓨터의 개념을 사용했기에 당시 $599는 너무 비싼 셈이었다. 결국 미국과 일본에서 약간의 판매량을 보이다가 사라진 기종이다.

피핀 이라는 이름도 매킨토시처럼 사과의 한 종류 이름이기도 하다.

Apple never intended to release its own Pippin. Instead it intended to license the technology to third parties, a business model similar to that of the ill-fated 3DO; however, the only Pippin licensee to release a product to market was Bandai.

By the time the Bandai Pippin was released (1995 in Japan; 1996 in the United States), the market was already dominated by the Nintendo 64, Sony PlayStation, and Sega Saturn, game machines that were much more powerful than the more general-purpose Pippin. In addition, there was little ready-to-use software for Pippin, the only major publisher being Bandai itself. Costing US$599 on launch, and touted as a cheap computer, the system, in reality, was commonly identified as a video game console. As such, its price was considered too expensive in comparison to its contemporaries.

Only a few thousand Pippins were manufactured; production was so limited that there were more keyboard and modem accessories produced than actual systems.[1]

Ultimately, Pippin as a technology suffered because it was a late starter in the 3D generation of consoles, and was under-powered as a gaming machine and personal computer. Bandai's version died quickly, only ever having a relatively limited release in the United States and Japan.

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• Page name: Apple Pippin
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• Date of last revision: 14 May 2007 19:54 UTC
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