Sì, prendeteci pure in giro a noi melomani traditi dal bacio di Giuda Giobs…

Ma lasciateci smaltire il dolore in pace, non toglieteci il diritto al lamento funebre, lo stesso che alimenta i vostri sfottò, che per altro non ci sfiorano, chi non sa non può capire.

John Siracusa sa. Leggetelo su Ars Technica.

…Ok, eccovi un estratto, tanto lo so, nessuno ci va a leggere 3 pagine di articolo :)

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?

So yeah, I’m sad that the PowerPC is leaving the Mac platform—even more so because of the really interesting things going on with that ISA in the upcoming crop of game console CPUs. It will pain me to know the contortions that instructions are going through in an x86 CPU inside a Mac. I will miss the idea of AltiVec, and the promise of powerful new CPUs arriving “out of nowhere” to power new Macs, a la the G5. I’ll miss the interesting things that “only Macs can do” thanks to clever CPU features like AltiVec, or even just a particularly fast barrel shifter. I’ll miss the dream, even if it was always destined to be just that.

That’s it.