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  • Intel's DRM handling was mentioned as a selling point back when they first dropped powerpc architecture.

    Blah, Blah! Technology 2008

  • (Also, if you want to get a mac, wait a bit and see how the powerpc-intel shift works out.) 29.

    The ultimate showdown Sean 2006

  • I think this a clear reason why apple switched to Intel, the powerpc architecture is crap and prone to heat.

    iMac G5 Meltdown 2005

  • As a platform the mac was failing, the powerpc chip was flaky and quite often not living up to the workhorse quadra chips before it.

    The Tao of Mac Rui Carmo 2010

  • I have run Debian on i386, sparc, hppa, powerpc, amd64, and in the few cases where something was different, I found it irksome.

    Planet Debian Xana 2010

  • But ARM was not the only RC buggy architecture left after sparc and powerpc were fixed.

    Planet Debian glandium 2010

  • But ARM was not the only RC buggy architecture left after sparc and powerpc were fixed.

    Planet Debian glandium 2010

  • * PPC (32bit powerpc) * s390x (64bit z/Series) * IA64 (64bit Itanium) and 3.2.0. debs for

    OpenOffice.org Planet Caolan McNamara 2010

  • I have run Debian on i386, sparc, hppa, powerpc, amd64, and in the few cases where something was different, I found it irksome.

    Yammering 2010

  • I have run Debian on i386, sparc, hppa, powerpc, amd64, and in the few cases where something was different, I found it irksome.

    Yammering 2010

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