PPC is better better better!!!!

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I remember a long time ago I posted a thread with the title 'PPC is bad bad bad!!!' or something close to it and in that thread a said my piece about how come I thought PPC sucked... it was expensive I said, it was slow I said, it was non-standerd, its ratio was way off for consumers... etc etc etc...

well like the idiot I am PPC970 has me eating my hat and I'm glad for it!... I really like the looks of the new mac's I intend (money willing) to get one and make it my primary workstation for what I do (graphics and web development) for a long time...

what are your reactions to PPC970?... I personally think that apple did tweak the benchmarks and I still dont care... its only marginal differences...the main thing is its CHEAPER, and more competative... its definitlu within reason...I dont know the price of the chip but anything good for PPC is good for Pegasos  and Amiga... so It's a good day for all of us I think...

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X86 is a fine architecture its solid, its stable (relatively), its very very cheap...and components are everywhere... I know its a generally a better price/performance ratio...and when people talk of watts and power consumption I often find myself thinking 'well yeah thats true, BUT if 1  3ghz X86 is doing the work of two or more PPC's and it's initial cost is less then a quarter the price, and its more reliable because if it breaks it can be replaced 4 times over and not cost more there, then the power consumption argument is bunk' ...

The reason thing that makes PPC viable is its reliability/stability its low noise (noise bothers alot of computer users), its clean assembler (so I'm told),...it has its merit ... OSX/MorphOS are the two reasons I will go PowerPC... I want a PPC970 to run OSX (good stable, mainstream Unix) and MorphOS (fast/lite amiga compatible OS)... I hope by this time next year I'm running  a Peg2 and  Dual G5 2ghz mac!... thats my dream for later this year!... I can keep hoping! ...