I doubt that PowerPC will be unsupported very soon--think of all the
Macs out there that're still running that processor and most of the
average joe Mac users don't care what proessor's in it. Apple is
certainly smart enough to realize this--and actually the Apple stores
still sell PowerPC-based machines--so I doubt they're going to drop
support. If they were, why did they not just start creating Intel-
specific development tools rather than their Universal binaries which
run natively on both processors? Still not sure how they pulled that
one off effectively. Anyway, I've got an iBook G4 as my notebook and
it gets about 5 and a half hours of battery life with the wireless
turned on--I've gotten up to 8 with it turned off. And currently, if
you want to run Virtual PC a PowerPC system is your only option--
though I believe there are other PC emulators that do work on the new
Intel Macs. Regardless of what processor you get in it, if you're
going to be doing PC emulation, you'll want to max out the ram and
I'm not kidding about that--the iBook G4 has a max of 1.5 gb and I
believe the Powerbook G4 has a max of 2 gigs. I'm not sure what the
max on the new Macbook Pro is.
On Mar 5, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
I am still in the market for a mac. I want a note book that would
have around 5 hours of battery life, play music and DVDs. I was
also thinking that I might like to run some sort of PC simulator on
it later on too. Of course using office type programs like Mariner
Write and Calc later on are also wanted.
So, what do you guys recomend that I do. I was originally thinking
about a mac book pro, but I have been hearing all this stuff about
the intels and it's duel processors sucking up battery life. Is
there an alternative that would better suit me, to the intel, mac
book, or both?
Justin Harford
