Is there anybody here who stills hates x86 because PowerPC was better?
If so did you have no problem buying an ARM device?
If you take into account the latest IBM PowerPC it is only marginally better than an x86 Xeon.
It is also getting a little confusing nowadays with all the SIMD and the reprogrammable graphics units.
The CPU could be very different in 5 years from what it is now.
It's just a CPU to me. I don't care very much about how they work unless I have to do low level programming on them. The fact remains that however inefficient and complicated the x86 design is, a cheap x86 based PC is still much faster than any Power architecture PC available.
