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by DaoVeles 642 days ago
You can still get PPC desktops but they are pricey. Thinking the Talos 2. Even now they are several generation behind. https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

Unfortunately back in the mid-late 2000's every major company dropped PPC. WiiU woudl have been the last major machine to use it and that seems to be to merely keep backward compatibility - I mean it was the absolute limits of the original PPC750 design. Unfortunately, it just lost out to the might of Intel/AMD and the soaring pace of ARM's development.

I have said it before that if we had technology based on the best designs available, we would all be using some from of PowerPC with so mix of Mac OS/Linux/beOS and Amiga Workbench. Turns out doing elegant design but mediocre cannot out do mediocre done well (X86).