There goes the only good reason to use a Macintosh. [LWN.net]

There goes the only good reason to use a Macintosh.

Posted Jun 8, 2005 23:12 UTC (Wed) by jcm (subscriber, #18262)
In reply to: There goes the only good reason to use a Macintosh. by job
Parent article: Yellow Dog Linux sticks with PowerPC

My issue is more of not wanting an Intel (and by that I mean x86 for all intents and purposes) processor in my laptop - where do I go for a non-Intel laptop in future? There's Tadpole (which I've seriously considered - though I'm not so happy to hand over so much for their current line of kit) but - as we have established in this thread - there are few good alternatives left.

The hope is that Intel have something good up their sleve - like a superPowerPC (and Steve was just having a laugh or was replaced by aliens for his keynote - about as likely as one of us successfully mail ordering Bush some tasty after dinner pretzels to choke on) - but I have a nasty feeling that the cold face of reality is that Apple are going to use plain old (badly designed) x86.

I genuinely think that PowerPC is a better fundamental design. It's clean (64bit clean but also just plain clean as a design), the assembly is easy to learn in a day (and it actually makes some sense compared to Intel's) and it was clearly designed with scalability in mind from the get go.

Jon.

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