My two cents Hank, the eBay option may be your best option. There is
still a big PowerPC user base and PowerPC users will likely outnumber
Intel users even when the next version of Mac OS X called "Leopard"
is released. This means developers and Apple have a vested interested
in supporting PowerPC. Fortunately, Apple makes it pretty
straightforward for developers using the Apple development tools to
compile Universal Binaries -- applications which run natively on both
PowerPC and Intel. So, while there is the transition to the Intel
chips, PowerPC is still generally well-supported and you'll still get
a lot of life out of a PowerPC machine (and save some bucks if you
buy it on eBay). At the end of the day, the tool is only obsolete if
it doesn't do what you want it to do. In fact, this transition may
work in your favor. You can probably pick up a perfectly good PowerPC
machine on the cheap as folks move to adopt the shiny new machines.
Hope the info helps,
Joe
On Apr 29, 2006, at 6:47 PM, hank wrote:
I would look for a power pc on ebay but ppc is dieing sense intel
is going
to be the new chip my guess there going to be fasing out ppc software
eventually.
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From: "Dane Trethowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 1:24 PM
Subject: The Mac, the real thing.
Well, they're certainly stable there's no doubt about that and I
think they're good value for money too.
According to the australian Apple Store, the apple G4 Ibook (the
machine i'm currently using), is $1,000.00 new. Yes, this machine
uses the old Power PC chips but it hasn't missed a beat since I got
it 4 weeks ago and its just amazing how fast the machine is at...
well... pretty much everything I've thrown at it including recording
audio, encoding audio etc so if I'm getting this out of a notebook
and I can't get the software for it in 3 years time then I would
consider myself very well served. I am however striving to get a new
Intel Mac by the end of the year, I'll see how I go.
On 30/04/2006, at 5:12 AM, Jesse A. Kragiel wrote:
Nope. It will only run the Tiger hacks. Apple includes something in
the EFI
to detect if it's a legit machine or not. Don't forget that OSX and
the Mac
hardware are written to go hand in hand, and that's why the Macs
are such
stable machines. Spring for the real thing, and you will be happy.
