And thank goodness for that! Macs were junk before the NeXTStep replacement and move to intel.
Actually I think that the iMac G3 - the first Mac that you could buy with OS X preinstalled was the best Mac they ever released. The technology was about two years old, but it was the finest CRT, a great all in one design with parts that really belonged together - much like todays iPad.
But - better than today - during that period Apple felt that it really needed 3rd party devellopers and open source software. So there was support for X11, Java, Flash and true standards. They even considered backward compatability to older Mac OSs as relevant. OK the box was sloooow, but it sucked less.
If you look at the circuit board of a PPC Mac and compare it to an Intel Mac that followed it, you will notice that the boards are less orderly and neat. You really can see the difference between standard industry layout and Apples custom secret sauce from the beginning of the century.