Matthias wrote:
Yes, possibly at least over time the price might drop. If we assume
that
the higher price of Macs today is one of the obstacles for a higher
market share it is not unlikely that this can sell more Macs. But of
course that's just speculation.
I see no reason why using Intel would drop the price of Mac machines.
Simply because Mac is (most probably) planning to use what Intel has
best to offer, ie high end processors. I don't think Apple wants to
compete with Dell etc. Rather with Sony. Plus Apple is making a lot on
money on the iPod/iTunes thing and it is this iPod/iTunes effect that
has been driving income for Apple. The fact that the new iMac was
advertised as "from the maker of the iPod" shows which category of
clients APple is aiming at.
Considering the Mac lines now, only the laptops and the eMac are not on
G5. Laptops because they'd burn your laps if they did, eMac because it
is the bottom end of the Mac offer. Although I have noticed that eMacs
used to follow the low end iMac pretty closely.
Conclusion: Apple is already using pretty much the best IBM has to
offer, and will for the next year and a half or so, since the Intel
transition is planned to be accomplished in about 2 years.
Shifting to Intel means providing the Macs with _better_ stuff than
what they have now. It is going to be easy for the laptops (with
probably no drop in price), and I don't think it is going to be very
hard one year from now for the desktop machines, considering Apple will
use a processor that most probably does not exist now.
More power less money ? I have never seen Apple act like that :) It is
most of the time more power a little more money, and when the machine
gets old, same power less money.
From developers lists, it seems Windows XP already runs on the
development machines Apple is leasing, even if with some problems (does
not use the whole screen etc) And I really don't see what Mac users who
don't care about CPU issues would want to experience by trying Windows
on their machines ? A time shift 10 years back ? What is the point ? As
for Linux, they already have a Unix...
JC Helary
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