Fryke, I am very biased towards PowerPC and the older Apple ways of developing a Macintosh because I have had experience using windows PCs in the business world. In fact EVERY modern computer I've ever own was an Apple, whether it was an Apple IIgs, PowerBook 520c, Blue & White G3, and my new Power Mac G5 with Dually 2.7 GHz G5s. Even people at work curse at their PCs for all of the crashes, data loss on projects, performance woes, etc... and no one is even aware, or doesn't admit that other solutions exist. I have converted a few of my coworkers to the Macintosh side, two purchased iMac G5s with the remote control and built-in iSight camera for Christmas. I think still that IBM is a sleeping giant and that when pressed, it will produce what Apple has needed, but IBM also needed to have other customers for its PowerPC chips. More customers means more pressure to develop better products for improved performance. I really think that Apple is going to get burned on this transition from PowerPC to Intel technology. I do not believe for one moment that Intel will produce anything 'better' just for Apple to be a leader for a small percentage of the PC market share. Apple using dual core PowerPC chips from IBM is the better strategy right now for competing with Intel/AMD technology. I really think IBM is going to have the better technology in the long-term, Intel doesn't have anything that can compete with the high-end PowerMac G5. The G5 is a full-blown 64-bit processor with a very high performance altivec unit strapped on - nothing Intel or AMD has can compete with it, except for lower power usage, but the PowerPC G5 is based on the 64-bit Power4 architecture - big iron from IBM. I think Apple is losing control over its product offereings, not just the Power Macintosh and other Macintosh platforms, but the iPod as well. It's awefully strange that the newer iPods aren't firewire anymore, Apple technology supplanted by Intel's USB technology. I think there is a correlation here. This may be lower cost for Apple in the long run, but it is here and now that true innovation will cease in the personal computing world, harware-wise. And no matter what Apple does to protect its propietary platform, Mac OS X will be cracked by very skillfull hackers, or nearly copied via a Linux-like GPL arrangement, for the rest of the PC world to use. The only thing preventing Linux from taking over the Window PC world is lack of focus.
