No, not me.<\/p>\n
I was about to write about how the reactions to Apple’s switching to Intel<\/a> are deeply irrational and emotional. If you don’t program in assembler, who cares what chip it is? But at Ars Technica, John Siracusa has written something way better that what I was coming up with it, a deeply honest article about his feelings for the PowerPC<\/a>. <\/p>\n Oh, I fully realize the market realities that conspire to make all of this x86 effort worthwhile, but this is about emotion, not reason. And if I didn’t give significant weight to my feelings when it comes to my platform choice, would I really have been a Mac user for the past 21 years?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And so I’ll tell you what I<\/em> think: Macs look cool, that’s it. The GUI is identifical to Windows XP, but better looking. The PowerPC was a great sell – it’s just a chip, but people cared. Breaking up is hard to do. Move on.<\/p>\n [More] No, not me. I was about to write about how the reactions to Apple’s switching to Intel are deeply irrational and emotional. If you don’t program in assembler, who cares what chip it is? And yet, even to a non-Mac person like me, the PowerPC chip always had a strange allure… something vague about elegance … Continue reading “Call me a hopeless romantic. I’ll miss the PowerPC.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnd yet, even to a non-Mac person like me, the PowerPC chip always had a strange allure… something vague about elegance of design, lots of registers, something stylish, cool even.<\/p>\n
\nAside from the tech details – how much hassle is it going to be to deal with two processor architectures at the same time and how fast will the emulation be – here’s a question: What part of Apple’s market share comes from the fact that Macs are perceived as different\/alternative? How much of that perception will disappear with Macs running (more) mainstream chips? How much will this hurt sales?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"