Greg Stigers quotes someone else:

> Avoid the Motorolas like the plague, at least get a PowerPC one. It's
> the de-facto standard. Many applications are no longer supported on
> Motorola platforms. Some others ship with "fat" binaries with both
> Motorola and PPC support (Reflection comes to mind).

and Patrick Santucci responds:

> This person is also referring to the 680x0 processors. They must not know
> the PowerPC chips are also made by Motorola (under license from IBM). They
> even have the Moto name and logo stamped on right on them, big as life!!

My guess (such as it is) is that the original person was confused
by the Motorola name being used for different things.

Yes, Motorola is the major chip provider, but they used to make
a line of PowerPC-based Mac clones under the "StarMax" name.
My guess is that these were what the person heard should be
avoided.

--Glenn