Anybody still hate x86 on principal?

[Tripitaka]

The most enjoyable moment I've ever had from intel was watching a Pentium Pro overheat and fall through its own motherboard. Priceless (as was the look on my bosses face).

If the next Amiga was Memristor based perhaps we would never see threads like this ever again......
...I can but dream. :/

[zylesea]

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.

I don't like x86 much, but hate is of course a much to strong word. But x64 is a pretty different story (AMD/Intel have made their homework!). I would welcome a port of MorphOS to x64 very much and encourage the developers to do so.
x64 will at least dominate the "classic" computing market for the next couple of years and will definitely not fall into oblivion for the next 25 years - word!

Generally I like Power even more and would be happy if there would be useful Power based products availble for our scene. But unfortunately they aren't. And it's probably easier to change OS ISA than to provide appropriate hardware. Hence, move to x64. If some useful ppc hardware pops up out of the sudden - no prob, as support for ppc is already there.

ARM is mostly for closed devices. I think it will continue to penetrate the market but x64 is the better target for our niche.

[psxphill]

I don't like Intel (I do own an Intel based laptop) on principal, I tend to buy AMD when I can. My bias against Intel only goes so far, if it's the best deal, I'm going for it.

I'm the opposite, but I decided AMD were bad when their stuff stank. Even when P4 was expensive and not as quick, AMD always seemed to have chipset stability issues.