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>Motorola makes only a fraction of its revenue from chips for Macs whereas
>AMD and Intel are at it Hammer and tongs racing ahead with development


Thats because they make powerpcs chips for many imbedded (non-computer) uses. 
Thats a good thing not a bad thing - keeps the costs down.

>the rate of development of
>PowerPC has been embarassing over the last few years -- PowerPC kicked
>x86
>butt for years in the mid 90s but that is all over now baby blue  


You can't judge by clock speed because the motorola (mac) processors get more 
done per clock cycle than do the Intels and AMD's. This is why a 1 gig mac is 
equivalent to a 1.5 gig Intel box. Read some comparison tests of the same 
program like Photoshop running on both systems.

Even if the mac were slightly slower, which I don't think it is-it would be 
worth it to me for the ease of use.