Why I still use a PowerPC

I find Safari's Develop menu is great for this - turn on/off script and images at a mouse click - no fuss.

 

I usually use my PPCs for a hobby kind of thing. I take my MBP to work everyday and 90% of the time use my HackMac X, but at work a G5 is always plugged in ready to go and I use it every so often for projects or when I don't feel like using my MBP.

But one thing I absolutely love to do is bring my MDD to friend's houses and bring a set of speakers and use it as a Spotify jukebox (thank god this isn't botched yet and I can use Spotify Premium) while impressing everyone there with this 12 year old Mac.

 

Ya'll are my heroes! I miss the old PowerPC-- it was a nice architecture, and it gave the feeling of competition in the processor market. Now, we all just use what Intel provides, and there's no suspense-- for better or worse.

Now, the hardware is all commodity and only differentiated by software-- which is probably how it should be, I guess. GPUs are the new battleground, I suppose. I wonder if ARM will start to eat into the bottom end some day and make it all interesting again.