On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 00:56 +0100, Owen Synge wrote:
why not an Apple port to Xen, Apples contributed to konqueror why not hardware support via Xen and Linux,
Apple will never want their OS running on commodity hardware let alone Xen, Apple is a hardware company.
you could then sell cool stuff on a daughter card with a PowerPC CPU for backwards compatibility.
With Rosetta it doesn't really matter and a PPC CPU isn't needed, That said I have heard that Rosetta's performance when running PPC apps is somewhat limited and anything that requires the Altivec won't run period.
Also having a PPC on a daughter board completely negates one of the biggest reasons for Apple to have gone the intel route ( High performance, lower power chips for laptops )
Also don't forget that software will probably stay in Universal Binary format for years to come (there is a large install base of what have traditionally been long lived machines out there)
So all in all either way (whether you buy one of the new breed Mac's when they become available, of if you have just bought a PPC machine) it doesn't really matter. In fact I'd go as far to say that even at the point of release a PPC Mac will be a better bet than than the first generation Intel ones.