Linked by Andrew Youll on Sun 24th Jul 2005 21:03 UTC, submitted by phaceton
Think Secret has details about updates to the Mac Mini and iBook, said to be going to be announced later this week.
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2005-07-06
Consider:
The entire back catalogue of Mac software will definitely run on PPC, but will have to run on x86 through Rosetta, which may not give consistent performance.
All new applications for the next five years will run on both PPC and x86. The compiler tools are there and there's no reason not to build universal binaries: hard-disk space and bandwidth are increasing rapidly.
Therefore, if you value compatibility, you should get yourself a G4 or a G5, you'll be fine for the next five years, at which point your processor will be too slow to run contemporary software anyway.. However if you value speed, you should get a G5 or Pentium. The G4 has a low clock speed (far too low for any architecture to make up, megahertz myth or no) and its front-side bus is staggeringly slow at 166Mhz, which is a big deal in an operating system that uses as much memory as MacOS X.