I see another PPC versus x86 discussion.
Please note that there were plenty of reasons to go the PPC route.
One of them was the fact that there are already 8000 people out there using PPC's in their Amiga's and who paid a lot of money for them.
Secondly, as the recent benchmarks from Petunia demonstrated, the PPC architecture is simpy better suited to emulate the 68K than the x86
There is no way that a Pentium 160 can emulate an 060/50 yet a BlizzardPPC will do just that.
Finally, some people suffered from a lack of historical insight.
They believe that because company x is on top now and for some time, this will always be that way.
These are the same people that believed 3DFX would rule forever and who know believe nVIDIA will always hold the performance crown.
I know this isn't true and I'm dying to tell you it isn't true.
Similarly, the PPC architecture used to be ahead of the x86 architecture for a long time during the haydays of the 603/604/ppc 750 (G3).
Then Motorola bumped up and hit a serious design flaw which kept their cpu's at 500 mhz for the longest time.
The performance gap (with respect to integer performance, not floating point performance) there is now can and will be bridged again.
I'll be here to tell you "I told you' with respect to nVIDIA soon.
I'm confident I will be able to do the same with respect to the G5
