Now that Apple
is also x86, there are no more interesting home computers,
just variations on a theme with the same basic internals.
Don't forget that they're also ARM (iphones, ipod's touch both run a
crippled version of OS X).
That's true, although until Apple gets around this ridiculous walled garden
policy with the iPhone OS I won't consider it a true inheritor.
However, the only interesting computer I've seen in the last few years was
the OLPC XO-1, and that was more from a social and design standpoint than
technology (though I was delighted to note it uses OpenFirmware).
But speaking of which ARM is making quite the headway
into netbooks and
phones these days.
It's still nice to see some heterogeneity in mobiles, and of course PowerPC
owns the current game console market, but computers are a lost cause except
for niche systems like the new Amigas. It's a cold, bitter x86 world out
there, and Intel wants Atom to do the same in the mobile space.
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