Why Apple stayed with PPC so long!

[utri007]

One reason why apple moved away from ppc was that they heard sony/nintedo/Microsoft plans to use ppc cpus in their consoles.

Apple has had big problems to get enough ppc cpus from motorola/ibm

[utri007]

Problems to get enough ppc cpus is only 100% fact we know, all the other reasons can be considered as a advertaising speech, more or less.

I'm not trying to say anything about how big reason it was but I'm sceptical for other reasons.

I of the biggest reason, I belive is that Mac Os was old and it would needed to completely rewriten to get all fancy moden features to it, and of course difficult. Result would have been broken compatibility and still needed to rewrite all applications, wich is not big difference to current situation. In the other hand they had already bought modern x86 and so they decided that it would be more economical way move on.

It would have been stupid to say: "we are moving to intel because we have problems to get cpus to our computer" or "We don't want to spend our money to develop modern Os from scratch"

[utri007]

Just saying that PPC is best is useless comment :/ and still there is lots of benchmarks and results vary by who has made them and of course people want to point out those benchmarks that support his/her opinion.

This is not ppc vs. x86 thread, at least I hope so.