So today for the first time, I can confirm the rumors that every release of Mac OS X has been compiled for both PowerPC and Intel. This has been going on for the last five years.
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The G5 was good and it was going to be the follow-on of the PowerPC road map for the desktop. It worked pretty well. And then IBM decided not to take the G5 into the laptop and decided to really focus its chip business on the game consoles.
Even two years out, I think what P.A. Semi brings out will be impressive because very few companies have focused on high performance and low power for less heat, and fewer still have focused on using the PowerPC architecture with all the software that's evolved for that.
I would recommend that any business buy Power Mac G5s now. Don't worry about later on, ... Because you know that, whatever happens, the current software is going to run on the PowerPC processor. There is uncertainty down the road with respect to Intel and how smoothly that transition would go.
Even though the original IBM 801 processor was never used in a production system, it did become the basis for IBM's later Power and PowerPC RISC processors.
The plan is to transition to the Intel processor by the end of this calendar year from today's IBM G5 2.3 GHz processor PowerPC processor. It's the best way to improve performance.
People typically buy according to need. If you're buying one of these PowerPC machines, it's not like it is obsolete. If you bought a Power Mac today, it probably won't be obsolete for the lifetime of that machine. By the time that machine reaches the end of its usefulness, you'll be ready to move onto something else.
The PowerPC systems that are available today have at least another two years of life left. Apple will support those machines with the next version of its operating system, so if you buy a PowerPC machine, it's still a good investment.
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.