So PowerPC is dead you say?

[fishy_fiz]

The whole "desktop machine is dying" thing is pretty darn premature. We've been hearing it for years, and while additional devices are becoming mainstream, it hasnt been to the detriment of desktop sales.
There's quite a few tasks that simply arent practical elsewhere.
Desktop cpu sales continue to increase year in year out. Hardly demonstrative of it becoming a dying market.

[fishy_fiz]

Well that's the thing isnt it... the desktop pc *isnt* in decline, its simply that other devices are now available and becoming mainstream. It may account for a smaller percentage of the market than it once did, but it's no less popular than it's ever been. A hypothetical 20% is still a nice chunk of the market. If the remaining devices (phones/laptops/netbooks/nettops/laptops/other consumer devices/etc.) take up 80% then the desktop computer is more than holding its own.

The sooner all the consumer driven drivel migrates to the fad devices the better in my opinion.

As I already said there's some tasks that are simply impractical on anything but a fully fledged desktop and there's still plenty of room for needing more computational power, even if some people seem to want to believe otherwise.

[fishy_fiz]

@Digiman

1.Nonsense. My core i7-2600k + gf 570 gtx system cost me well under 400 pounds and I get well over double that at 1080p/high detail. Also something like an AMD e-350/E-450 is more than capable of dealing with a lot of DX9.x games.
2. Very, very few console games run at 1080p. As many as not dont even run in 720p
3. A 3.4ghz Phenom2 is much, much faster than either Cell or Xenon, so 1:1 emulation speed isnt required.

[fishy_fiz]

While I find it unusual to see myself agreeing with tmhg I can only assume he means commercially viable, which for the moment appears to be true. Price, performance and most other properties make it not an option in anything other than homebrew/hobbyist circles where rational decisions arent important. If anything Id have to say the ppc systems youve mentioned support that idea rather than negate it.