>It's not a matter of 'viable'. It's a fund raising exercise. As it stands there are very few usable PPC laptops, just like there are relatively few usable ARM

>It's not a matter of 'viable'. It's a fund raising exercise. As it stands there are very few usable PPC laptops, just like there are relatively few usable ARM laptops (although that is improving quite rapidly). The development of a modern PPC laptop would go pretty far towards making PPC a viable general purpose computing architecture, albeit one likely always reserved for enthusiasts. >You don't need a PPC box to try out "Windows, MacOS, Linux, and a handful of BSDs". I'm not saying that I need a PPC box to switch OS's, I'm saying that doing things on a different architecture is a good exercise and helps you learn things that can be improved your current one / shows you things that it does well that you should appreciate. It is a good exercise if you want to have a greater understanding and perspective on things you might ordinarily ignore. The specs of their proposed laptop are indeed fairly weak, and last I checked PPC support was not particularly great in linux. There's also the issue of hardware bugs on a complex new system. I completely understand people not being excited by this device, and even wondering why anybody would care. I care because it's different, and because I've seen significant value for myself in sometimes doing ordinary things differently.