Let's be honest. We all know we did it. We went from rightly claiming that the PowerPC was simply faster, to plausibly claiming it was faster because you couldn't compare megahertz to megahertz, to scoffing that, even if it wasn't as fast, it was an inherently better architecture, to saying oh, yeah, well processor speed doesn't tell the whole speed story! So just shut up, shut up, shut up!

Well, come September, your PowerPC will hit the end of its upgrade cycle and you can leave all those uncomfortable memories behind--because Snow Leopard is Intel-only. Which, given it's half the footprint of Leopard, is kind of ironic since it's the PowerPC machines that are disk-constrained.

So, PowerPC-istas, it's time to brush off that picture one last time, put on a slow song, take ol' Belle for a final tour around all those old familiar Web sites.

Then take her out back by the shed and shoot her.

Sad. Soooooo sad.