OSX on a G3
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- kpl0
you're so wrong, leg.
Look under POWER5 budget numbers, not G5. PowerPC is IBM's baby too, and it's what they use for their enterprise servers. Apple is getting scraps basically, but those scraps still blow away anything on the x86. IBM doesn't spend an inordinate amount of time on Apple's chips, but they don't need to either.
The x86 is an antiquated architecture designed for 640kb of ram and CPU's running somewhere under 10 mhz. Intel isn't making a 64-bit chip for x86 for good reason, and AMD is doing it for marketing reasons. And the x86 platform is so flawed now that the only thing really keeping it alive is market inertia. Intel is jumping ship for their 64-bit platform.
Apple already went through a major transition from OS Classic to X. architecture changes will force another set of software platform changes and no one in their right mind is cheering for that--users and manufacters--especially when the new PPC stuff is capable of running on par with the latest Intel.
Motorolla is a moot point now.