If he were techincally-orientated, then he would know why they went with PowerPC, though.
I don't know the facts, but I would guess the endianness of the PowerPC architecture had a lot to do with the choice to go that route. These days it's less of a problem, but in those days they needed all the power they could get, so byte-swapping would have slowed down legacy compatibility too much.
Hindsight is always 20/20 vision.
