Excusing the awful pun, I watched the Apple WWDC 06 Keynote today. “The Transition is Complete”. There are no more PowerPC based Macs, they all use Intel processors now. Whilst I admit todays Intel machines are far faster than their PPC equivilents I can’t help but look back at things like Apple’s own page on the G5, celebrating it as the “worlds most advanced processor” and the adverts for the original G3/G4 machines (especially the one with the tanks after the US Government decided that the G4 was a “tactical weapon” and couldn’t be shipped to a number of countries!)

I have owned a PowerPC 601, 603, G3, G4 and used a number of G5 macs. Each time they outperformed the equivilent x86 chip drastically and served me well. Now, strangely, it seems that “think different” has led Apple to think the same as everyone else in their processor choice… but a mac is two things above it’s processor; It’s software & It’s design. In both of these, Apple in unsurpassed.