New amiga coming out 2010..is this a wind up?

[jorkany]

PPC is still alive and really alive, and it can match x86 computing power, look to the PS3 powerful and cheap, so we don't need to shift to ARM or whatever.

The PS3 is hardly powerful, for general computing it's a joke and not even a good joke. Example of Blender render times:

http://eofw.org/bench/


You'll find a couple PS3 "systems" listed in the very bottom, the fastest:
3431     00:06:31.39     1x     Sony PlayStation 3 IBM Cell     3000MHz     1     Cell Broadband     512MB     Linux Ubuntu     2.44     test.blend     Using Ubuntu on my Playstation 3.     2007-07-25 23:09:50


Compare to generic run-of-the-mill PC available at about the same price as PS3:
277     00:00:28.60     1x     Intel® Core™2Quad Q6600 2400MHz     3381MHz     4     p35     4096MB     WinXP Pro     2.45     test.blend     24/7 setup     2007-11-01 17:16:45

[jorkany]

Altering the Mac OS to run on Intel took a LOT of work, time, manhours, effort and that was with an existing userbase and a functioning parent company along with income from other businesses (iPod and music sales, mainly the latter which is like selling air and getting a cut for it since you dont have to 'produce' anything but a reusable server infrastructure to make the transaction happen).

Actually, Apple claims it didn't take a lot of work, because OS X was developed to run on Intel from Day 1 in parallel with the PPC version. It just wasn't publicized that they had an Intel version until Steve decided to ditch PPC.