:Linux Journal: The (Near) Future of PowerPC and Linux
Linux Journal: The (Near) Future of PowerPC and Linux Sep 4, 2005, 05 :00 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (7591 reads) (Other stories by Kai Staats)
"In June of this year, Apple announced a two-year migration away from the PowerPC to an Intel CPU. Although this transition marks a pivotal point in Apple's history, the ramifications to a wide-spread, dedicated, diverse PowerPC user base may not be immediately obvious to the CPU agnostic end user.
"Architecture religion aside, the PowerPC historically has offered an improved price/performance/power-consumption/density ratio wherein particular high performance codes are found to run at a much higher level of performance than on their x86/ia64 counterparts..."
