what price range is good for supporting voice over? as far as machines? what is the cheapest I can go with but have pritty good results? thanks hank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kafka's Daytime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 3:55 PM Subject: Re: The Mac, the real thing.
> 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. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dane Trethowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac > > OS X by > > theblind" <[email protected]> > > 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. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > > >
