@morbiuswilters said:
I have no idea. But choosing Apple when they were on the barely-used PPC platform seems even less justifiable.
Story time: I knew a bunch of people who were Mac fanatics in the PPC
days. And boy, did these people love talking CPU architecture.
I fully agree that PowerPC design is WAY better than X86. That, however, isn't enough. If the processors aren't developed further (especially on "mobile side"), that can be a showstopper. You couldn't really get anything faster than 1.666GHz-ish G4 in an laptop. No hope for G5, unless there were BIG changes in power consumption, cooling requirements etc. but none of this matters really.
The ONLY thing that matters EVER for choice of a computer is, "Will it run the software you want it to run?" - and processor architecture tends to be a major factor on that decision.
But as said, I bought this last year, and never really meant it to be the "primary mobile system", but what can you do when the "supposedly primary" system starts suffering from overheating (that leads to shutdown) and you have zero income? So basically the system "sneaked its way to the top".
Anyway, especially on move I don't have that high requirements. Video player, web browser with youtube working, gcc, text editor with syntax highlight, mame, mp3 player, and the system can easily do all that. Well, obviously it can't do full HD video (and neither can the display anyway) and even many 720p videos are too much for it. Also "being able to escape the linux world for a while" is a plus :-)