Are PowerPC Macs Obsolete?
Roughly Drafted’s Daniel Eran says: “The comfortable Mac ecosystem seemed completely turned upside down when Apple announced the Intel transition. All of a sudden, it was not obvious how long the newest models would remain useful. “The usual panic mongering press didn’t help by suggesting that the PowerPC was now trash, and its performance had actually had been a lie all along, and that suddenly Apple woke up and realized they should have jumped on the x86 bandwagon long ago. “Of course, none of those things are true. Simply stated, there is nothing obsolete about the PowerPC…. “It’s a quandary as old as the personal computer: everyone is afraid of buying obsolete computer technology, and yet everything in the computer world becomes obsolete nearly as fast as you can buy it.
