Au revoir PowerPC! Hello Snow Leopard 10.6
This is an happy day, the day Apple realy throw away the PowerPC compatibility to jump totally in the x86 bandwagon, leaving all these old processors in the dust…
Understand me, I liked my PowerPC Mac, from my first Mac Mini 1.25Ghz, but they where so slow compared to any PC of their time that it was like a joke when Apple talked about powerful mac, power mac, and so on…
So when Mac Intel appeared, they changed it all, being even faster with PowerPC emulated applications then regular PowerPC Mac, and quickly becoming 2X or 3X faster with native applications.
In fact, the domination of Intel chips are so obvious that the best PowerPC Mac, the PowerMac Quad 4×2.5Ghz is slower than some actual MacBook Pro notebooks with dual-core processors, on MacWorld’s SpeedMark 5 test suite, and could not be compared to any actual iMac!
When I swapped my PowerBook 15″ HD w/ PowerPC G4 1.67Ghz to a Black MacBook 2×2.0Ghz, it was like time machine, everything just happens NOW, no more waiting endlessly, no more sluggyness when editing images with Photoshop (or at least less frequently!), speedier interface.
As for the MC680×0 family, PowerPC family is part of the history of Apple and Macs, no more of its present 
